Fontconfig - Mar 2006 - font priorities?

Hi all,

I''m packaging the khmer ttf fonts for Debian[1], they are "Khmer
OS",
"Khmer OS Fasthand", "Khmer OS Freehand", "Khmer OS
Metal Chrieng",
"Khmer OS Muol" and "Khmer OS System". I''d like to
prioritise the fonts
like this: "Khmer OS" > "Khmer OS System" > the rest,
since the rest are
more decorative fonts. I checked fonts-conf(5), but I''m still not sure
how to do this. Does anyone have any idea how to to go about this? Also,
the debian font manager defoma has a way to assign priority values (from
0 to 100) for each font file, is there an equivalent in fontconfig?

     1. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/ttf-khmeros

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pabs

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Paul Wise wrote:
> I''m packaging the khmer ttf fonts for Debian[1], they are
"Khmer OS",
> "Khmer OS Fasthand", "Khmer OS Freehand", "Khmer
OS Metal Chrieng",
> "Khmer OS Muol" and "Khmer OS System". I''d
like to prioritise the fonts
> like this: "Khmer OS" > "Khmer OS System" > the
rest, since the rest are
> more decorative fonts. I checked fonts-conf(5), but I''m still not
sure
> how to do this. Does anyone have any idea how to to go about this? Also,
> the debian font manager defoma has a way to assign priority values (from
> 0 to 100) for each font file, is there an equivalent in fontconfig?
As far as I can tell, the way that fontconfig supports font priorities 
(in some sense) is through the use of aliases.  For instance, if you 
request ''sans-serif'', then it looks for:

                 <family>serif</family>
                 <prefer>
                         <family>Bitstream Vera Serif</family>
                         <family>Times New Roman</family>
                         <family>Thorndale AMT</family>
                         <family>Luxi Serif</family>
    			etc...

The font that gets returned for a specific query of course depends on 
the query that you make.  At the fontconfig level, you get what you ask 
for; aside from font aliases, it won''t decide for you what you asked
for.

pat