Resending reply to list. Sorry about the noise! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: lolilolicon <lolilolicon@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 4:48 PM Subject: Re: Problem when <alias> is followed by more than one <family> To: Akira TAGOH <akira@xxxxxxxxx> On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Akira TAGOH <akira@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > See the document. <alias> allows to have only one <family> Yes, that's what I thought at first. But then, I find it's not true that <alias> can have only one family, with several clues: First, the configs shipped with fontconfig have <alias> followed by a bunch of <family> elements, namely 30-metric-aliases.conf, 40-nonlatin.conf and 45-latin.conf. I thought it's wrong configuration, but now I realize it's not that simple. Second, I tested with the equivalent <match> rules: <match> <test name="family"> <string>Helvetica</string> <string>Arial</string> </test> <edit name="family" mode="prepend" binding="same"> <string>HelveticaNeueLT Pro 55 Roman</string> </edit> </match> and I get exactly the same results as before. Third, I've tested that <family> following <alias> are all somehow taken into account: <alias binding="same"> <family>Helvetica</family> <family>Arial</family> <family>lolfont</family> <prefer> <family>Helvetica LT Std</family> </prefer> </alias> The "lolfont" is not a real font name, and I get the result: $ fc-match Helvetica HelveticaLTStd-Roman.otf: "Helvetica LT Std" "Roman" $ fc-match Arial arial.ttf: "Arial" "Normal" $ fc-match lolfont HelveticaLTStd-Roman.otf: "Helvetica LT Std" "Roman" This makes me believe that <alias> can have one or more <family> elements, and is equivalent to the corresponding <match> rules like the one above, but somehow the first one following the opening <alias> or <test> is treated differently from the others, i.e. order matters... This is where I'm really confused. > and one of <prefer>, <accept> or <default>. the behavior is surely > following what the document says. No, the document says the <family> element can be "followed optional <prefer>, <accept> and <default> elements", not "one of" them. I'm referring to the fonts-conf(5) man page and fonts.dtd. _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig
