[Fontconfig] Pango support for `size' OpenType feature?

Behdad Esfahbod behdad at behdad.org
Wed Sep 12 08:20:31 PDT 2012


On 09/12/2012 11:06 AM, Raimund Steger wrote:
> Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> 
> As I see it that would require major changes in the matcher because family
> name substitution is normally only possible through rules.
> I'm rather certain it's not worth the effort (and additional user confusion),
> I can't imagine a use case for it and if there is one, I'd say it's better
> done with rules. (The tide might turn here someday though if some kind of
> native family grouping should be implemented.)

I'm of the exact same opinion.

> Even in that spec the following paragraph suggests that there should still be
> a way to select fonts by their unfiltered names. Let's just call the
> additional values in the 'family' property fontconfig's implementation of that
> suggestion.
> 
> Raimund
> 
> 


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