Kaixo! On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 02:02:37PM -0700, Keith Packard wrote: > > 2. I cann't find a way to list aliases. FcFontList() lists physical > > font only. > > That is by design. The essential problem is that many family names are > registered trademarks, presenting these to the user when they are used > only as alias names would be a trademark violation --
But that makes the aliases much less usefull. It would be better imho to have the aliases displayed, and if copyrighted names are a concern just avoid shipping a sample config file with those. Another possibility would be to make the aliases names show as aliases (eg by adding "(user alias)" after the name). Or a third possibility, to have two classes of aliases, one displayable and another not displayable (as some aliases are not intended to actually show up, but just avoid that a request to an explicit but missing font be displayed incorrectly) There are indeed to sort of purposes for the aliases; one is to just be able to ship a default config file that will have good results in all or most cases, by providing fallback fonts that trie to have close appearences. But the other purpose is for users to define their own preferences of fontsets and have them accessilbe by simple names. -- Ki �a vos v�ye b�n, Pablo Saratxaga http://chanae.stben.be/pablo/ PGP Key available, key ID: 0xD9B85466 [you can write me in Walloon, Spanish, French, English, Italian or Portuguese]
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