[Fontconfig] reminder: 2.11.0 to be released in next week

Akira TAGOH akira at tagoh.org
Thu Jul 4 03:54:42 PDT 2013


That should works as expected now. please test as well as usual
matching rule since the logic was somewhat rewritten.

Thanks,

On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 9:25 PM, Raimund Steger <rs at mytum.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> On Tue, June 11, 2013 09:59, Akira TAGOH wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> If there are not anything else we want to fix before releasing 2.11.0,
>> please follow up on this mail otherwise I'll make one next week.
>
> Sorry- I know I should have tested this a lot earlier, but the
> implementation of https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59385
> (intermixed <test> and <edit> elements in <match>,
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/fontconfig/commit/?id=d26fb23c41abd87422778bb38eea39f25ba3dc4a)
> does not seem to exactly match Behdad's suggestion from his initial mail:
>
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.fonts.fontconfig/4607
>
> The suggestion in the mail is that:
>
>   <match>
>     <test1>
>     <edit1>
>     <test2>
>     <edit2>
>   </match>
>
> is a shortcut for:
>
>   <match>
>     <test1>
>     <edit1>
>   </match>
>   <match>
>     <test1>
>     <test2>
>     <edit2>
>   </match>
>
> i. e., test2 is only evaluated if test1 was successful.
>
> However the current implementation in head seems to generate two unrelated
> rules.
>
> If I make an example configuration like this:
>
>   <match target="pattern">
>     <test name="family" qual="first"><string>Helvetica</string></test>
>     <edit name="family" mode="append"><string>Helvetica LT
> Std</string></edit>
>     <test name="pixelsize" compare="less"><double>12</double></test>
>     <edit name="family" mode="prepend"><string>Lucida Sans</string></edit>
>   </match>
>
> so that Helvetica LT Std is always acceptable for Helvetica, but below
> 12px Lucida Sans is preferred for the family, fontconfig instead prepends
> "Lucida Sans" to all patterns with a pixelsize below 12. So I'd have to
> write
>
>   <match target="pattern">
>     <test name="family" qual="first"><string>Helvetica</string></test>
>     <edit name="family" mode="append"><string>Helvetica LT
> Std</string></edit>
>     <test name="family" qual="first"><string>Helvetica</string></test>
>     <test name="pixelsize" compare="less"><double>12</double></test>
>     <edit name="family" mode="prepend" binding="strong"><string>Lucida
> Sans</string></edit>
>   </match>
>
> instead.
>
> (Given I haven't made an error in my test) it's probably still an
> improvement over 2.10 though.
>
>
> Raimund
>
>
>
>
>
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Akira TAGOH


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