reassign 354537 fontconfig thanks Dear fontconfig maintainer,
in bug #354537 it has been noted, that in some applicatins the LMTypewriter10 font from the lmodern package appears with so called small caps, ie, the lower case letters look like down scaled capital letters. After my today's experiments, this seems to be a more general problem in fontconfig when working with font families that contain more than the four standard variants Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold-Italic. I am working on a sarge system, ie fontconfig version 2.3.1-2, with the lmodern package from backports.org, version 0.99.3-1bpo1. Similar problems have been reported with unstable systems, but I don't have one for testing right now. Let's look at LMTypewriter10: ~$ fc-list LMTypewriter10 LMTypewriter10:style=CapsOblique LMTypewriter10:style=DarkOblique LMTypewriter10:style=Italic LMTypewriter10:style=LightCondensed LMTypewriter10:style=Dark LMTypewriter10:style=CapsRegular LMTypewriter10:style=Oblique LMTypewriter10:style=LightOblique LMTypewriter10:style=Regular LMTypewriter10:style=LightCondensedOblique LMTypewriter10:style=Light ~$ fc-match LMTypewriter10 lmtcsc10.pfb: "LMTypewriter10" "CapsRegular" ~$ fc-match LMTypewriter10:Regular lmtcsc10.pfb: "LMTypewriter10" "CapsRegular" ~$ fc-match LMTypewriter10:CapsRegular lmtcsc10.pfb: "LMTypewriter10" "CapsRegular" The default font when no further information is supplied or when one is looking for Regular should be lmtt10.pfb which has style=Regular. But only when one explicitly searches for this, one does find the font: ~$ fc-match LMTypewriter10:style=Regular lmtt10.pfb: "LMTypewriter10" "Regular" Another interesting case is the following ~$ fc-match LMTypewriter10:CapsOblique lmtcsc10.pfb: "LMTypewriter10" "CapsRegular" ~$ fc-match LMTypewriter10:style=CapsOblique lmtcso10.pfb: "LMTypewriter10" "CapsOblique" So even though there is an exact match for CapsOblique, it is not found when searching without the explicit 'style='. Similar oddities happen with LMRoman10 from the same package: ~$ fc-list LMRoman10 LMRoman10:style=CapsRegular LMRoman10:style=CapsOblique LMRoman10:style=DemiOblique LMRoman10:style=Regular LMRoman10:style=BoldOblique LMRoman10:style=Demi LMRoman10:style=Italic LMRoman10:style=Oblique LMRoman10:style=Bold LMRoman10:style=BoldItalic ~$ fc-match LMRoman10:Oblique lmcsco10.pfb: "LMRoman10" "CapsOblique" ~$ fc-match LMRoman10:style=oblique lmro10.pfb: "LMRoman10" "Oblique" I don't know if these problems are related to those I have with other font families that come in many shapes. For example Zurich (a Univers clone from Bitstream that can be found on old CorelDraw CDs) comes in a total of 22 variants. The condensed variants are correctly idenitfied, but the extended not: ~$ fc-list Zurich:width=100 family style Zurich:style=Black Italic Zurich:style=Light Italic Zurich:style=Black Extended Zurich:style=Black Zurich:style=Extra Black Zurich:style=Bold Extended Zurich:style=Italic Zurich:style=Extended Zurich:style=Bold Zurich:style=Light Zurich:style=Regular Zurich:style=Ultra Black Extended Zurich:style=Bold Italic ~$ fc-match zurich:bold bunb8a.pfb: "Zurich" "Bold" ~$ fc-match zurich:black bunc8ax.pfb: "Zurich" "Black Extended" This makes working with these fonts in applications such as abiword or OOo almost impossible. Although these applications seem to have even more problems that fc-match. For example, selecting in abiword Zurich in the four standard variants Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold-Italic, I end up with ZurichBT-RomanCondensed ZurichBT-LightItalic ZurichBT-BoldExtended ZurichBT-BoldItalic in the PS file. I don't know what else is going wrong here, since fc-match gets these cases correct: ~$ fc-match zurich:italic bunri8a.pfb: "Zurich" "Italic" ~$ fc-match zurich bunr8a.pfb: "Zurich" "Regular" ~$ fc-match zurich:bold:italic bunbi8a.pfb: "Zurich" "Bold Italic" ~$ fc-match zurich:bold bunb8a.pfb: "Zurich" "Bold" cheerio ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
