[Bug 18725] New: RFE: allow merging of legacy font family names
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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18725
Summary: RFE: allow merging of legacy font family names
Product: fontconfig
Version: 2.6
Platform: Other
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: library
AssignedTo: keithp(a)keithp.com
ReportedBy: nicolas.mailhot(a)laposte.net
CC: fedora-fonts-bugs-list(a)redhat.com
Historically font formats only allowed four faces regular, bold, italic, bold
italic. You had to use a separate font family to distribute condensed, heavy
etc variants
This has changed (cf http://blogs.msdn.com/text/attachment/2249036.ashx ) and
modern fonts such as DejaVu include all faces under a single family name.
Applications such as OO.o are being fixed to handle multifaced fonts
Unfortunately there are still many historic fonts in the wild distributed in
several sets of four faces (gs fonts, arial narrow, arial bold, etc). Those
fonts currently appear under different family names in fontconfig-using apps.
This is perturbing to users, since the same faces of historic and modern fonts
are not handled the same way. Microsoft did some sort of magic in uniscribe to
hide this distinction (irrelevant to users).
Please provide a documented config pattern for font distributors that enables
them to declare to fontconfig "font family A and font family B are the same,
please expose all the associated faces under A name to users".
(of course an application asking explicitely for B should still get it, but
users would only see A in font lists)
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4 years, 9 months
[Bug 18723] New: RFE: fontconfig-level locl patching
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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18723
Summary: RFE: fontconfig-level locl patching
Product: fontconfig
Version: 2.6
Platform: Other
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: medium
Component: library
AssignedTo: keithp(a)keithp.com
ReportedBy: nicolas.mailhot(a)laposte.net
CC: fedora-fonts-bugs-list(a)redhat.com
Due to Han unification and other similar stuff parts of some fonts may not be
suitable for all locales.
This is handled by the locl flag in modern opentype fonts.
However there are still many non-opentype fonts in the wild, and it is not
possible to convert them all at once (when the license permits it).
There should be a way in fontconfig for font distributors to patch in via a
config file the locl characteristics of a font.
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4 years, 9 months
[Bug 367791] New: remove 59-liberation-fonts.conf
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=367791
Summary: remove 59-liberation-fonts.conf
Product: Fedora
Version: devel
Platform: All
OS/Version: Linux
Status: NEW
Severity: low
Priority: low
Component: liberation-fonts
AssignedTo: cchance(a)redhat.com
ReportedBy: besfahbo(a)redhat.com
QAContact: extras-qa(a)fedoraproject.org
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fontconfig-2.4.92-1 that I'm just building contains all the configuration done
in 59-liberation-fonts.conf, and much more to make liberation-fonts useful.
Please remove that file for F9.
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10 years, 10 months
[Bug 18726] New: RFE: help write locale-specific tests
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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18726
Summary: RFE: help write locale-specific tests
Product: fontconfig
Version: 2.6
Platform: Other
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: medium
Component: library
AssignedTo: keithp(a)keithp.com
ReportedBy: nicolas.mailhot(a)laposte.net
CC: fedora-fonts-bugs-list(a)redhat.com
Due to Han unification there is often a need for font distributors to test if a
font name is requested in a chinese, japanese or korean context. However, there
are many chinese locales and writing an exact match is not possible.
The current pattern (used by Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, etc) in this case is
<test compare="contains" name="lang">
<string>zh</string>
</test>
but we do not really want to match every locale containing "ze". We want to
match every ze-foo locale, not jze-foo or foo-ze
Please add a documented fonts.conf pattern to fontconfig that allows
distributors to specify such an exact match.
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10 years, 11 months
[Bug 18724] New: RFE: font merging
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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18724
Summary: RFE: font merging
Product: fontconfig
Version: 2.6
Platform: Other
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: medium
Component: library
AssignedTo: keithp(a)keithp.com
ReportedBy: nicolas.mailhot(a)laposte.net
CC: fedora-fonts-bugs-list(a)redhat.com
Several major fonts like Arial and Droid Sans are created in two parts: a core
multifaced part and an Unicode extension (Arial Unicode, Droid Sans Fallback).
Splitting in two file sets allows people who do not need the extension part to
avoid installing it (since the extension is usually huge)
For historic reasons the two parts use different font family names, even though
from a functional user POW they are just two components of a single family.
There should be a documented way in fontconfig for font distributors to specify
via a config file "font foo is an extension of font bar, use it preferably when
bar is missing glyphs, do not show it as a separate item in font lists and only
allow access to the foo family when an application asks explicitely for it"
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12 years, 2 months