Fontconfig - Nov 2005 - pcf font preferences

Around 22 o''clock on Apr 30, Ryan Lovett wrote:
> For example when I have ''Fixed 10'' selected in
gnome-terminal, any of
> the above fonts will be used over 6x13 (where the above fonts also follow
some
> sort of pecking order).
6x13 is a semicondensed face, so you''ll have to make sure you request
it
by setting the width to semicondensed instead of normal.  You can do this 
in your .fonts.conf with:

        <match target="pattern">
		<!-- match family "fixed" -->
                <test name="family">
                        <string>fixed</string>
                </test>
		<!-- make sure width wasn''t specified -->
                <test name="width" qual="all">
                        <int>-1</int>
                </test>
		<!-- set the width to semicondensed to prefer 6x13 -->
                <edit name="width">
                        <const>semicondensed</const>
                </edit>
        </match>

-keith

On my Debian sid system, the following fonts from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc

  12x13ja.pcf.gz         7x14-JISX0201.1976-0.pcf.gz  8x13-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz
  7x13-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz  7x14.pcf.gz                  8x13.pcf.gz
  7x13.pcf.gz            7x14B-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz
  7x14-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz  7x14B.pcf.gz

from the xfonts-base package are getting in the way of my preferred font,
6x13*. For example when I have ''Fixed 10'' selected in
gnome-terminal, any of
the above fonts will be used over 6x13 (where the above fonts also follow some
sort of pecking order). If I move them out of the way, ''Fixed
10'' is 6x13. Is
there any way to tell fontconfig to prefer 6x13 without moving or copying fonts
to preferred/deferred directories? Why is fontconfig favoring the above fonts?

Thanks,
Ryan