[Fontconfig] Heads up: Droid fonts update in Rawhide

[Khaled Hosny]

On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 02:04:52PM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> 
> Le Ven 27 juillet 2012 12:42, Akira TAGOH a écrit :
> 
> > <match target="scan">
> >   <test="family" ignore-blanks="yes">
> >     <string>Droid Sans Fallback</string>
> >   </test>
> >   <edit name="lang" mode="assign">
> >     <minus><name>lang</name>
> >       <langset><string>ja</string></langset>
> >     </minus>
> >   </edit>
> > </match>
> 
> Thanks a lot for the experimenting. I take it that the most complete
> config version you produced is the patch you sent separately, not the
> version attached to this mail?
> 
> Just to be clear: it's perfectly OK if the droid sans foo names subsist
> inside fontconfig, the aim is only to cull them from the font selection
> dropdowns in GUI apps
> 
> Another complex fontconfig substitution scenario that needs investigating
> is automatic use of PT Sans Caption instead of PT Sans at small sizes, to
> simulate a modern smart font automatically in fontconfig apps

Fonts with more than one optical design can (and should) use OpenType
size feature[1]. A good example for such fonts is the Latin Modern
family, which are badly handled by fontconfig.

[1] http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/features_pt.htm#size

Regards,
 Khaled