[Fontconfig] Unavailable foundry prefers fonts without any foundry
value
Keith Packard
keithp at keithp.com
Sun Sep 7 14:00:17 PDT 2003
http://pdx.freedesktop.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=112
A pattern including a foundry which isn't present in the configuration ends up preferring fonts which have no known foundry set rather than a font which otherwise matches the pattern.
$ fc-match courier:foundry=adobe
FreeMono.ttf: "FreeMono" "Medium"
$ fc-match courier
cour.pfa: "Courier" "Regular"
(the last font has foundry "ibm" on my machine)
This seems wrong to me; but of course 'courier' is a special case as many
foundries supply a font with that family name.
The question boils down to the precedence among the matching values, we
placed FC_FOUNDRY ahead of FC_FAMILY before the weak/strong value
distinction was created.
Can anyone think of a scenario where the foundry name would be more
important than the family name? Moving the foundry below the weak family
binding solves this problem nicely.
-keith
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