Jan Claeys wrote:
IMHO those TrueType font files have incorrect font family fields.
(But the reason for that is that the foundries have to do this because
Windows font family handling is broken--Mac TrueType fonts might have
this different!)
IIUC, Qt reads the Mac data from TrueType font files. IAC, this means
that it isn't going to get fixed so FontConfig is going to need to
change this.
I'm not 100% sure what you mean by "16 faces in a jumbled order", but
there must be a better solution than copying Windows's broken behaviour.
In the GNOME font chooser dialog all 16 of the fonts I listed with the
family name "Helvetica" are listed under "Helvetica" the "Family"
window. So, there are 16 selections available in the: "Style" window
and they are NOT sorted into any logical order:
Condensed Light
Light
Condensed Light Oblique
Light Oblique
Condensed Medium
Regular
Narrow
Condensed Oblique
Oblique
Narrow Oblique
Condensed Bold
Bold
Condensed Bold Oblique
Narrow Bold Oblique
Bold Oblique
So, we have three categories:
Width
Weight
Slant
all jumbled together. If I had more Helvetica faces, it would be worse.
If we are going to have them all in the same window, I would suggest
sorting them in some logical order.
--
JRT
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