[Fontconfig] Detecting whether a font is a fallback

[Jean Abou Samra]

Le jeudi 20 avril 2023 à 09:41 +0000, Werner LEMBERG a écrit :

> If we were starting the LilyPond project today, that might make
> sense.  However, there are plenty of existing LilyPond files that
> use font family names like “times new roman” that are substituted
> with “Times New Roman”, and I think we'd rather not start making
> those emit warnings.
> 
> I disagree.  We already emit a lot of 'please fix manually' warnings
> in `convert-ly` (for non-LilyPonders: this script updates the input
> syntax of LilyPond files from older to newer versions, but sometimes
> it can't do that automatically, thus this warning); I don't see any
> reason why urging users to fix incorrectly specified family names
> should be an exception – a warning in LilyPond is definitely justified
> IMHO.

Let's continue to discuss this on [https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues/2761#note_1328535775](https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues/2761#note_1328535775), not on this list.





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