On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 6:16 PM Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > Please don't do that. You're propagating a technical facet of a font > family (variability) inside the font family name. This is the completely > wrong model, user-visible font lists should only include lists of font > designs, and the text stack select the correct technical implementation > (among those available) transparently depending on its rendering needs. Indeed, it looks like feasible like what you said. but if I understand correctly, it isn't a custom family name for varfonts but style name. Though I doubt how one can effectively name it less than actual parameters of fontvariations. > > User-visible font lists are not here to make humans compensate app > defects in font file selection. > > I firmly intend to mask all those technical font names Fedora-side when > they exist upstream, and rewrite them within fontconfig rules so there > is a single font family exposed to users (as was already done a decade > ago for the Droid mess). > > So no: > Foo Variable > Foo Math > Foo Hebrew > Foo TT > Foo OT > Foo my text stack sucks so I make font file selection a human problem > exposed to the user. > > Just a single Foo family, and pango and others have to learn how to > select the correct pile of bytes within the files tagged as Foo to > format the text user wants to be rendered in Foo. > > If fontconfig is not providing pango and others sufficient info to make > this selection reliably, fix that instead of involving the user. > > Let's not reproduce the horror that PS1 font selection was in TEX, for > next-gen OpenType features, based on fontconfig. > > Regards, > > -- > Nicolas Mailhot > _______________________________________________ > Fontconfig mailing list > Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig -- Akira TAGOH _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig
