OSDL DTL Tech Board: Fonts & Linux (Thu, Aug 31)

[James Richard Tyrer]

Jan Claeys wrote:
> IMHO those TrueType font files have incorrect font family fields.
> (But the reason for that is that the foundries have to do this because
> Windows font family handling is broken--Mac TrueType fonts might have
> this different!)

IIUC, Qt reads the Mac data from TrueType font files.  IAC, this means
that it isn't going to get fixed so FontConfig is going to need to
change this.

> I'm not 100% sure what you mean by "16 faces in a jumbled order", but
> there must be a better solution than copying Windows's broken behaviour.
> 
In the GNOME font chooser dialog all 16 of the fonts I listed with the
family name "Helvetica" are listed under "Helvetica" the "Family"
window.  So, there are 16 selections available in the: "Style" window
and they are NOT sorted into any logical order:

	Condensed Light
	Light
	Condensed Light Oblique
	Light Oblique
	Condensed Medium
	Regular
	Narrow
	Condensed Oblique
	Oblique
	Narrow Oblique
	Condensed Bold
	Bold
	Condensed Bold Oblique
	Narrow Bold Oblique
	Bold Oblique

So, we have three categories:

	Width
	Weight
	Slant

all jumbled together.  If I had more Helvetica faces, it would be worse.
  If we are going to have them all in the same window, I would suggest
sorting them in some logical order.

-- 
JRT