[Fontconfig] Type Of “size” Property?

Lawrence D'Oliveiro ldo at geek-central.gen.nz
Mon Jun 3 08:48:33 UTC 2019


On Mon, 3 Jun 2019 16:44:59 +0900, Akira TAGOH wrote:

> On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 7:12 PM Lawrence D'Oliveiro
> <ldo at geek-central.gen.nz> wrote:
>
>> Am I right in concluding that this property is still a double, as
>> documented in older fontconfig/fontconfig.h? And that (at least as
>> of 2.13.1), no property actually uses the new Range type?
>
> No, it can be Range in some cases, such as TrueType GX fonts.

So properties need not be of fixed types any more? Which kind of limits
the usefulness of the FCPatternGetXXX type-specific routines?

Just as well I now cater for that possibility in my Python binding
<https://github.com/ldo/python_fontconfig/commit/3993541a806ca450426e6ba36d6ddb377287e719> ...


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