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

[James Richard Tyrer]

Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-09-03 at 01:18 -0400, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> I don't know what you call logical, but apparently the list is sorted on
> the properties you listed in the order weight, slant, width.  So you
> have Light, Medium, Bold.  For each, you have regular then Oblique, and
> for each, Condensed, Narrow, regular.
> 
OK, me stupid. :-0

Yes, that does appear to be true.  It looked so jumbled at first glance 
that I didn't see that.  So that would mean that only a minor change to 
the code would be needed for it to use the (more) logical order: width, 
weight, slant that we are used to seeing.

-- 
JRT