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Akira TAGOH wrote:
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 9:42 AM, Raimund Steger <rs@xxxxxxxx> wrote:Although I think mode="append" is smarter here, because it's an easy way of retaining compatibility with all places that directly refer to the locale-specific name and expect it to be enumerable with FcFontList.Ah, I got what you mean here. yes, definitely. apparently one don't need to have the substitution rule like: <alias binding="same"> <family>X</family> <accept><family>Y</family></accept> </alias> So <match target="scan"> <test name="family"><string>X</string></test> <edit name="family" mode="append"><string>Y</string></edit> </match> should be so smart in this case.
Yes. The main differences I see are that(1) if family Y isn't a "real" family, or if Y doesn't support the 'lang' in the pattern, then the <alias> rule will not return the family in FcFontList. The target="scan" rule will do that.
(2) if family Y *is* a real family, then the <alias> rule might cause its language to be ignored (at least without any additional rules) if someone uses FcFontMatch to ask for Y with strong binding, as that will override 'lang'. Conversely, if someone expects to *always* get Y regardless of language when asking for it, they won't be able to do it with the target="scan" rule. (This has the potential to cause some user frustration I think.)
(3) with the target="scan" rule, target="font" edits, which some people use to apply final twiddling to the font returned by FcFontMatch, can test for family Y as well.
The <alias> rule is more lightweight because it doesn't affect the cache, so I usually prefer that, but it's probably less of an issue for distribution-provided fonts.
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