[Fontconfig] Marking glyphs as deliberately blank, per font

[Qianqian Fang]

Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> Unfortunately though the problems seem to be much more fundamental than I 
> thought.  Nicolas is right to the point with problems he brings up.  I'm not 
> sure I agree with solutions he proposes though.
>   

can you be more specific? what's wrong with the syntax Nicolas
proposed? redundancy?

> Alternative solutions, for example, include:
>
>    - Write XSL converters from his proposed simple syntax to fontconfig format,
>    - Write a GUI / TUI tool to generate fontconfig confs.
>   

talking about GUI, I do have something to share. I wrote a
javascript-based program to let users set font orders and
get instant feedbacks. You can browse the page at

http://wenq.org/cloud/fcdesigner.html#en

a variant of the code enumerating local fonts using
a flash object can be browsed at

http://wenq.org/cloud/fcdesigner_local.html#en

hit the [create] button on the top to produce the output,
which is the content of ~/.fonts.conf. It does use "invasive"
syntax such as prepend/binding=strong, but this can be
easily changed. I included default options for Chinese,
Japanese and Latin; for the first two, bitmap-priority
and vector-priority settings can be chosen from the top menu.

Any feedback is welcome (maybe start a new thread?)

> The point being: we all know XML is too verbose to write manually.  That's by 
> design though.  The solution is to not write it manually...
>
> Anyway, I'm afraid I can't pay too much attention to this right away as I have 
> to get back to finishing HarfBuzz and other long overdue projects.
>
> Cheers,
> behdad
>
> PS. Krzysztof, thanks for contributing to the thread.  You said many things 
> that I wanted to say.
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