[DejaVu-bugs] [Bug 40914] Feature request: provide the condensed fonts also with distinct names

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40914

Ben Laenen <bl.bugs at gmail.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |INVALID

--- Comment #1 from Ben Laenen <bl.bugs at gmail.com> 2011-11-06 12:05:17 PST ---
This is a long story, and the short explanation is that we provide two methods
in the font: one where the condensed faces belong the the bigger Sans/Serif
family, and one where the condensed faces have distinct names (as you request).
We basically let the programs decide which one they want.

However, in most Linux programs selecting fonts will all go through fontconfig.
Fontconfig supports different styles so it selects the first option. It however
ignores the fact that most programs making use of fontconfig don't support
styles other than bold and/or italic (or don't support it the way they should),
and that makes some styles unavailable.

So, the "culprit" here is fontconfig, which should in an ideal world ask the
program if it can handle more styles and if not, feed it the distinct names.

"Fixing" the font by removing the better method would be the world on its head,
you can't get every font foundry in the world to change their fonts. So we
won't do that either.

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