Hey, I know aliases don't work in that situation. But aliases are just sugar for match/edit sequences. If you expand it to what it means, it should work conditionally. Please look around for the details. Or someone else may offer it. behdad On 11/27/2011 02:04 PM, Infinality wrote: > (apologies if this is a duplicate email) > > I am wondering if it is possible to make alias definitions (and other things?) > conditional on some sort of test with a <match> or something else. For example: > > <match target="font" > > <test name="rendering_style" qual="any" > > <string>style1</string> > <string>style2</string> > </test> > <alias> > <family>serif</family> > <prefer> > <family>Font Name 1</family> > <family>Font Name 2</family> > </prefer> > </alias> > </match> > > The goal here would be to only assign the alias stuff when the value for > rendering_style is style1 or style2. In practice, I've confirmed that this > block of xml will in fact /always/ assign the alias, regardless of the test. > I see that the definition for <match> requires a <test> and <edit>, not a > <test> and <something else>, so it's not surprising that it doesn't work. > > But, is there a way to accomplish what I want? And within a single file? > (i.e. not having to manually split and do symlinks) > > Thanks, > Erik > > _______________________________________________ > Fontconfig mailing list > Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig > _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig
