See the document. <alias> allows to have only one <family> and one of <prefer>, <accept> or <default>. the behavior is surely following what the document says. On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 4:24 AM, lolilolicon <lolilolicon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, I need a little help understanding a <alias> config. > > The font "Helvetica" is not installed on my system, but one called > "HelveticaNeueLT Pro 55 Roman" is; I like the later so I want to prepend > it before "Helvetica" and "Arial". I find that <alias> works curiously > with more than one <family> being matched. > > In ~/.fonts.conf, I have: > > <alias binding="same"> > <family>Helvetica</family> > <family>Arial</family> > <prefer> > <family>HelveticaNeueLT Pro 55 Roman</family> > </prefer> > </alias> > > then Arial is not aliased corretly: > > $ fc-match Helvetica > HelveticaNeueLTPro-Roman.otf: "HelveticaNeueLT Pro 55 Roman" "55 Roman" > $ fc-match Arial > arial.ttf: "Arial" "Normal" > > And if I put "Arial" at first, instead: > > <alias binding="same"> > <family>Arial</family> > <family>Helvetica</family> > <prefer> > <family>HelveticaNeueLT Pro 55 Roman</family> > </prefer> > </alias> > > then Helvetica is not aliased corretly: > > $ fc-match Helvetica > n019003l.pfb: "Nimbus Sans L" "Regular" > $ fc-match Arial > HelveticaNeueLTPro-Roman.otf: "HelveticaNeueLT Pro 55 Roman" "55 Roman" > > Here, "Nimbus Sans L" is from 30-metric-aliases.conf: > > <alias binding="same"> > <family>Helvetica</family> > <accept> > <family>Nimbus Sans L</family> > </accept> > </alias> > > If I use separate <alias> for each family: > > <alias binding="same"> > <family>Helvetica</family> > <prefer> > <family>HelveticaNeueLT Pro 55 Roman</family> > </prefer> > </alias> > <alias binding="same"> > <family>Arial</family> > <prefer> > <family>HelveticaNeueLT Pro 55 Roman</family> > </prefer> > </alias> > > then the result is as expected: > > $ fc-match Helvetica > HelveticaNeueLTPro-Roman.otf: "HelveticaNeueLT Pro 55 Roman" "55 Roman" > $ fc-match Arial > HelveticaNeueLTPro-Roman.otf: "HelveticaNeueLT Pro 55 Roman" "55 Roman" > > Can you help me understand what is happening? > _______________________________________________ > Fontconfig mailing list > Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig -- Akira TAGOH _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig
