On 11/27/2009 06:30 AM, Krzysztof Kotlenga wrote: > > One of the best answers for such statements is: patches welcome. And it > usually ends the discussion. That's usually true. However, in this case, as the Fedora font special interest group lead, Nicolas has great insight into the current configuration syntax. And I asked for his input. Unfortunately though the problems seem to be much more fundamental than I thought. Nicolas is right to the point with problems he brings up. I'm not sure I agree with solutions he proposes though. Alternative solutions, for example, include: - Write XSL converters from his proposed simple syntax to fontconfig format, - Write a GUI / TUI tool to generate fontconfig confs. The point being: we all know XML is too verbose to write manually. That's by design though. The solution is to not write it manually... Anyway, I'm afraid I can't pay too much attention to this right away as I have to get back to finishing HarfBuzz and other long overdue projects. Cheers, behdad PS. Krzysztof, thanks for contributing to the thread. You said many things that I wanted to say. _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig
