Infinality wrote:
Hi, I have some configurations that make gratuitous use of multiple values in <test>, to group certain families of fonts together, as shown below. My understanding is that the only "correct" way to do this now is to have an entire <match><test><string>NAME</string></test><edit></edit></match> for every single family! Is there any simpler way to do what I would like? If not, is it planned?
fontconfig's behavior is unchanged; only the warning is new. There have been a few discussions on this I think, ones that I recollect are http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.fonts.fontconfig/3741 and http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.fonts.fontconfig/3991, including the CR http://cgit.freedesktop.org/fontconfig/commit/conf.d/45-latin.conf?id=2b010e46e629f118885f17ba860e9c4ddbba8779.
Multiple families in <alias> or <match> only work as expected if you do not use the position of the matching value for <edit>'s, i. e. only use the <edit> modes prepend_first or append_last or edit another property. For other modes, the position where the edit is applied is erratic. That was the rationale behind the warning.
Since that frequently came up I think the change was a good idea and I've written my configs in a way that I use individual <match> blocks. (I only assign some marker property in these blocks and don't do other edits so that I don't have to repeat them every time.)
As to whether there is The Solution planned for this, I don't see it... The problem is you can have any number of matching positions in such cases, and then where would you apply the edit? What would you do for qual's other than "any"? It just wouldn't make sense. OK maybe the warning could be more precise and only warn if the match position is used in the edit and/or if there is more than one actual match per property for a given pattern...
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