[Fontconfig] No FC_FONT_FEATURES?

Behdad Esfahbod behdad at behdad.org
Sat Jun 13 19:51:25 UTC 2020


On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 8:00 PM Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo at geek-central.gen.nz>
wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Jun 2020 14:36:28 +0900, Akira TAGOH wrote:
>
> > Indeed it isn't. that property is supposed to work as an option to let
> > an application know what feature tags users want to enable.
>
> Given that it doesn’t give you the features tags, what is the point of
> that, exactly?
>

It serves two roles:

1. For clients to populate their search pattern with user-requested font
features, which will then carry to matched patterns via RenderPrepare
mechanism,

2. For configuration to be able to enable font features as needed.

b

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