[Fontconfig] Search for fonts by full name

Evgeniy Stepanov eugeni.stepanov at gmail.com
Mon Jun 23 16:56:43 PDT 2008


On Sunday 08 June 2008 22:46:29 Evgeniy Stepanov wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to be able to use full font names in match pattern. The first
> attached patch implements this. It is to be applied on top of Isaiah
> Beerbower's patch (the one with postscript names).
>
> There is a problem with it that also happens when matching fonts by
> postscript names. Not every font have a full name or a postscript name.
> Such fonts get a score of 0 (the best possible), while fonts that have a
> non-matching name get a score of 100. This results in fonts being selected
> based on other parameters (because both fonts with matching name and
> without a name get 0 for full name test).
>
> To fix this, the second patch gives the worst possible score to those match
> values that were not updated. Alternatively, the third patch makes sure
> that every font has a full name, making it up from it's family and style if
> needed. Either one of them is enough to make this feature work.

Any response? Should I send these patches to bug tracker instead?


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