Le jeudi 26 novembre 2009 à 13:14 -0500, Behdad Esfahbod a écrit : > Nicolas, all that talk makes sense, but unless a concrete proposal for > how to > change fontconfig comes in, I don't know what to do about it. To sum up, and from a pure fontconfig user POW (I don't want to know how the code looks like), I think you could solve many user pains by making it possible to use <font> <family>some family name</family> <style>some style name</style> <format>some font format name</format> <unicode> <min>some-unicode-value</min> <max>some-greater-unicode-value</max> <unicode> <lang>some fontconfig orth id</lang> </font> instead of plain <family>some family name</family> in all the places <family/> is exposed in fontconfig files today In other words, permit users to write rules that apply to just a specific sub-element of a font family In this notation : 1. family is an optional element. It can occur several times (if you want a rule to apply to multiple font families). When family is absent the rule applies to all font families 2. style is an optional element. It can occur several times (if you want a rule to apply to multiple styles). When style is absent the rule applies to all styles 3. format is an optional element. It can occur several times (if you want a rule to apply to multiple font formats). When format is absent the rule applies to all formats 4. unicode is an optional element. It can occur several times (if you want a rule to apply to multiple unicode blocks). When unicode is absent the rule applies to the complete encoding range 5. lang is an optional element. It can occur several times (if you want a rule to apply to multiple lang blocks). When lang is absent the rule applies to all langs encoding range. Lang means whatever glyphs are associated to a particular lang in an .orth file. And it would also be useful to define a <not/> operator, for example <not> <lang>ja_Ja</lang> </not> apply the rule to all the elements defined before, except for the glyphs associated with ja_Ja Of course this is only my personal opinion, if anyone on the list strongly disagrees with this design please speak up now Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig
