Re: Increasing point size of Meera font using fontconfig

["Pravin S" <pravin d s gmail com>]

2008/7/25 Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas mailhot gmail com>:
> On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 11:43 +0530, Pravin S wrote:
>
>> where should i submit this patch
>> 1) to fontconfig package? or
>> 2) will it ok to copy it to /etc/conf.d through smc-fonts package?
>> IMO second one is not right
>
> We have many packages that do that, because isuing a fontconfig update
> each time a maintainer wants to change a fontconfig rule for his font is
> frankly not scalable. As a bonus that also means fontconfig does not
> have to process rules for fonts not installed on the system. The whole
> conf.d change was made to make this kind of use possible.

agree,
having .conf file with font package is very likely since it is for
particular font,
but problem can be
conf.d will get overwrite after each update of fontconfig and
possibility of loss of .conf files
that is only problem i think

>
>> 2008/7/24 Behdad Esfahbod :
>
>> > I tested your snippet and it works perfectly.  It's actually a very nice
>> > trick that should be documented!  I'm CC'ing fedora-fonts-list.
>
> Thanks but really, it's a wiki you know. Anyway:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fontconfig_packaging_tips#Auto-scaling_problem_fonts
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Nicolas Mailhot
>



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