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`Vera Bold' replaced by `AlbanyAMT-Bold'


From: Werner LEMBERG
Subject: `Vera Bold' replaced by `AlbanyAMT-Bold'
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 12:31:26 +0100 (CET)

Inspite of explicitly selecting `Vera Bold' (in file font-name.ly),
lilypond gets a wrong font on my system: It uses `AlbanyAMT-Bold'
instead.  Bad, bad.

This is pango 1.4.0, together with fontconfig 2.3.2.

Doing some tests with fc-match, I get this:

  fc-match "Vera"
     -> albw.ttf: "Albany AMT" "Regular"

  fc-match "Bitstream Vera Serif"
     -> VeraSe.ttf: "Bitstream Vera Serif" "Roman"

  fc-match "Bitstream Vera Serif:style=Bold"
     -> VeraSeBd.ttf: "Bitstream Vera Serif" "Bold"

Hm, hm.  I don't consider this user-friendly.  fontconfig should look
up substrings IMHO before trying a completely different font.

Is this a problem on my side?  Is my fontconfig version too old?


    Werner




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