[Fontconfig] Marking glyphs as deliberately blank, per font

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le vendredi 27 novembre 2009 à 01:45 +0100, Krzysztof Kotlenga a écrit :
> Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> 
> > Le jeudi 26 novembre 2009 à 22:06 +0100, Krzysztof Kotlenga a

> > What is already there is so verbose very few people use it
>                                       ^^^^^^^^
> You never know...

Fact: I check every single font package that ends up in Fedora. On my
system I have

find /etc/fonts/conf.d/ | wc -l
239

Is that a good enough sample for you?

> 
> > OTOH the match target/test is a reinvention of emacs' let's use lisp
> > syntax as configuration syntax hell
> 
> This doesn't sound like technical merit.

This is not about "technical merit" as in "what fontconfig can do".
Everyone agrees that fontconfig is a very powerful tool. This is about
the usability of fontconfig config syntax. Currently the power of
fontconfig is not exercised because its config language is
over-convoluted and too low-level (either people do not try to use it at
all, or when they shoot themselves in the foot because of the syntax)

This is about things like
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20911
that should not exist at all if the config syntax was clearer for human
beings ("with X, ... I don't think it can do any harm at all." famous
last words of one of the commenters, if you knew how often I read
something like that from a CJK packager word to see a new bug opened a
month later)

PS. Why did you remove the list CC?

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot