Hi, > On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 7:29 PM, Cyker Way <cykerway@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > [...] >> BTW, how does fontconfig sort the precedence of fonts according to the >> application request? If this question is not fully answered, maybe other >> problems will arise in the future. Do you have any idea on that? You could say that the "order" of the fonts is that of their distance from the application-provided pattern. It is detailed on http://www.freedesktop.org/software/fontconfig/fontconfig-user.html#AEN25 In short: Your application specifies a pattern with a number of properties, like family, pixelsize, etc. (Example: "Bitstream Vera Sans:pixelsize=13") This pattern is modified through the <match target="pattern"> rules in your config files. (Every element in the pattern can in fact be a list ordered from good candidate to not-so-good candidate.) The modified pattern is then compared to all fonts that have been scanned, using a predefined order of properties -- see the above link. Properties like foundry and family weigh more than say, outline. Others like file or fontformat are not used at all, so you cannot select a font based on its filename. It should also be noted that some applications have their own fallback scheme on top of what fontconfig provides, e. g. based on CSS. > [...] > you may get more information from the debugging log by setting the env var > like FC_DEBUG=4. This is also a very good idea (be prepared for some output). Raimund -- R.Steger Tel. +49-179-2981632 icq 16845346 _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig
