[Fontconfig-bugs] [Bug 95428] Subfamilies with different OpenType 'size' should not be merged

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95428

--- Comment #8 from Akira TAGOH <akira at tagoh.org> ---
(In reply to gm from comment #6)
> Hello, is there any update regarding my suggestion to disregard name IDs 16
> & 17 when dealing with optical fonts? Thank you!

Sorry, still don't have a time to take a look carefully.
Though storing the optical font name into the new object may be an idea, but it
comes to mind why font developers adds the same (sub-)family names to the
different typefaces. I guess they expect to access them with it seamlessly.
then it may be relevant to https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13416.
though your suggestions looks opposed to it.

For the functionality of fontconfig, to get much better fonts, more conditions
needs to be given right. otherwise the result may be vague and not expected one
for someone. in that sense, IMHO supporting the 'size' feature in OpenType may
be a solution for this issue perhaps - of course applications needs to request
the proper things to polish the result. otherwise it may not needs to be
fontconfig. applications could read a font directly or the primitive way.

I'll revisit this issue once I have a time. but just for the record at this
moment.

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