Around 22 o'clock on Feb 8, Mike FABIAN wrote:
> To make it possible to override as much as possible of
> the global settings in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf with user
> preferences in ~/.fonts.conf, it seems to be better
> to put the line
The subtleties of the contents of /etc/fonts/fonts.conf appear to be lost
here. The placement of the include of ~/.fonts.conf is intended to
carefully allow overriding of all of the values in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf.
In particular, because <prefer> aliases insert names directly ahead of the
matching family, the sequence:
<!-- in ~/.fonts.conf -->
<alias>
<family>sans-serif</family>
<prefer>
<family>Arial</family>
</prefer>
</alias>
...
<!-- in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf -->
<alias>
<family>sans-serif</family>
<prefer>
<family>Nimbus Sans</family>
</prefer>
</alias>
results in the family list
Arial,Nimbus Sans,sans-serif
As you see, in this case the users preferred font (arial) takes precedence
over the system default.
That's the bulk of the configuration below the include of ~/.fonts.conf.
The only other rules below ~/.fonts.conf are to map PostScript families to
TrueType "equivalents". Perhaps those should be moved above the include,
I don't have a strong opinion.
-keith
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