On Sunday 16 September 2001 19:37, Keith Packard wrote:
| I've been busy writing a paper on Xft and thinking about face aliases. I
| believe there are two essential reasons to use aliasing -- the primary
| one is to provide suitable replacements when the requested face is not
| installed. A secondary one is to expose preferences for "better" looking
| faces, and to provide for well-known artificial names. I think both of
| these can be resolved with a relatively simple syntax:
|
| alias "serif" prefer "Times";
| alias "Times" prefer "Times New Roman" accept "Charter","LuciduxSerif";
|
| These are semantically equivalent to the following match/edit rules:
|
| match
| any family == "serif"
| edit
| family += "Times";
|
| match
| any family == "Times"
| edit
| family += "Times New Roman";
| family =+ "LuciduxSerif";
| family =+ "Charter";
Yes, alias "Times" prefer "Times New Roman" accept "Charter","LuciduxSerif";
is much, much better than example above (match/edit)
I was not aware about possibility of using += and =+ (and differences about
them)
Thanks for implementing new syntax.
By the way, will this go to XFree 4.1 branch?
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