On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 12:19:25AM +0300, Elie Roux wrote: > Khaled Hosny a écrit : > >Another option is to find Apple font configuration files (which are > >likely to be some sort of XML) and try to parse it directly, and the > >same for FC, but we still need an XML library (but this can be easier > >since context has one ;). > > Am I the only one finding this extremely ugly?
Because running a command line tool and then parsing its non-standard output (non-standard in the way that it was never meant to be machine readable and can change without prior notice) is much more uglier, but reading a configuration file is not. > Anyway, while we are > in ugliness, I don't really see why we need some sort of xml library > to parse the configuration files, some regexp will do the trick very > easily (for the fonts.conf of fc at least). Because I neither know XML nor regular expressions (unless very superficial knowledge is counted.) Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer
