Hello everyone.
I have always been irritated by the fact that fonts always show as only
one alphabetical list. A real annoyance for people with lots of fonts
installed. How come it has never changed? Wouldn''t it be nice if
fontconfig returned data that would allow programs to produce a
user-created font tree list? Something like :
All fonts >??
??(regular alphabetical list of fonts)
Fonts I like the best >
Baskerville
Times New Roman
Japanese fonts >
??MS????
??MS??
Fonts I use for work >
??Baskerville
??Japanese >
????MS????
????MS??
Cool pop fonts >
??SweetCandy Ninja
??SweetCandy Ninja Bold
The tree list would originate from ~./fonts.conf :
<match target="font">
<test qual="any"
name="fullname"><string>MS??</string></test>
<edit name="usersort"
mode="append_last"><string>Japanese
fonts</string></edit>
<edit name="usersort"
mode="append_last"><string>Fonts I use at
work\Japanese</string></edit>
</match>
How does that sound? Am I looking at the right place anyway?
I think I could try to put my hands into that.
On 02/22/2010 04:24 AM, Samuel Brassard wrote:> How does that sound? Am I looking at the right place anyway? > I think I could try to put my hands into that.You can do that already. There''s even ~/fonts.conf.d You just need an app to use that information. behdad
Behdad Esfahbod ????????:> On 02/22/2010 04:24 AM, Samuel Brassard wrote: > >> How does that sound? Am I looking at the right place anyway? >> I think I could try to put my hands into that. > > You can do that already. There''s even ~/fonts.conf.d > You just need an app to use that information. > > behdad >I know it''s possible to create a library that uses a modified version of fontconfig''s configuration format, but... - What is fontconfig going to do with a property like "usersort", which will lie in the same configuration file? - fontconfig is already appending external information to fonts (ex: aliases); why having a separate library continue the work?
On 02/24/2010 05:41 AM, Samuel Brassard wrote:> Behdad Esfahbod ????????: >> On 02/22/2010 04:24 AM, Samuel Brassard wrote: >> >>> How does that sound? Am I looking at the right place anyway? >>> I think I could try to put my hands into that. >> >> You can do that already. There''s even ~/fonts.conf.d >> You just need an app to use that information. >> >> behdad >> > > I know it''s possible to create a library that uses a modified version of > fontconfig''s configuration format, but...No. That''s not what I meant. The fontconfig library and configuration as is allow you to define your custom elements.> - What is fontconfig going to do with a property like "usersort", which > will lie in the same configuration file?Just passes it on. It''s up to the user to make any use of it. behdad> - fontconfig is already appending external information to fonts (ex: > aliases); why having a separate library continue the work?