On 09/25/2009 09:49 PM, Patrick M. Rutkowski wrote: > Ah, excellent, "fc-match mono", that works. > > However, I'm confused as to what exactly the pattern syntax is there. > I thought patterns had to be in :foo=bar form, or repetitions thereof. > Since "fc-match mono" gave me "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono", I thought > that perhaps it was doing a caseless substring match on the text > "mono" in the font name. So, I did an "fc-match DejaVu" to test this > theory, but it failed to return any of the DejaVu fonts on my system. The syntax is "familyname-size:key=value:key=value:..." The family names "mono", "monospace", "sans", "sans-serif", "serif", "cursive", and "fantasy" are special aliases. > Thought it's working now, I'm still very confused as to what is going on. > > What is "fc-match mono" doing, _exactly_? It's asking for the best font with family name "mono". "mono" is a special family name to access the default monospace font on the system. > Is this pattern syntax documented anywhere? I tried looking to the > FcNameParse() documentation for help, but no luck. http://fontconfig.org/fontconfig-user.html behdad > -Patrick > > > On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Behdad Esfahbod<behdad@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 09/25/2009 06:25 PM, Patrick M. Rutkowski wrote: >>> >>> I'm very confused about how "fc-match" is supposed to work. >>> >>> I run something like: `fc-match :spacing=mono`, or the synonym >>> `fc-match :spacing=100`, yet it does NOT give me a monospace font as I >>> expected. I instead get: >>> >>> Vera.ttf "Bitstream Vera Sans" "Roamn" >>> >>> At the same time, `fc-list :spacing=mono fullname` shows that there >>> are indeed monospace fonts on the system >>> ... >>> :fullname=Free Monospaced >>> :fullname=DejaVu Sans Mono >>> ... >>> >>> What's the deal here? >> >> If you check fcmatch.c, you see that FC_SPACING has a lower priority than >> FC_FAMILY, so that's matched first. >> >>> I want to integrate libfreetype in my application for font searching >>> in the Linux port. Is it really the case that I won't be able to do >>> things like allow the user to ask for a monospace font and ACTUALLY >>> GET ONE? (instead of Bitstream Vera Sans). >> >> The right way to do that is to "fc-match monospace" >> >> Cheers, >> behdad >> >>> Many thanks in advance >>> -Patrick >> > _______________________________________________ > Fontconfig mailing list > Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig > _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig
