Re: Seamonkey UI font and OS/2 layout palette

Alex Taylor wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Jan 2016 17:35:47 UTC, Dave Yeo <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>>> One odd behaviour I had here was when testing the new fontconfig, I lost
>>>>> Workplace Sans Bold (still worked with mzfntcfg and the font palette
>>>>> showed it as installed). Eventually I updated to the latest on your page
>>>>> and it came back. Seems to be a local problem as no-one else has
>>>>> complained after I made the test SM available.
>>> Strange.
>>
>> I may have screwed up my configuration during attempts to build and
>> install fontconfig before installing the new RPM one. Even now it
>> somewhat broken,
>> R:\tmp>fc-match warpsans
>> WPSU.TTF: "Workplace Sans" "Regular"
>>
>> R:\tmp>fc-match "warpsans bold"
>> DEJAVUSANS.TTF: "DejaVu Sans" "Book"
>>
>> need to spend some more time examining this.
>
> Probably just missing an alias def somewhere.  I imagine "DejaVu Sans" is
> the default sans font (fallback), so it's returning that because it doesn't
> find (or at any rate correctly resolve) a mapping from WarpSans Bold to
> Workplace Sans Bold.
>
> Not having looked at the code, however, that's just an educated guess.
>

It works fine on eCS2.2b2 where I haven't really installed any extra 
fonts. Andreas also seems to have similar problems.
Probably the default config is going to need more tweeking as also
E:\test>fc-match sans
DEJAVUSANS.TTF: "DejaVu Sans" "Book"

E:\test>fc-match sans-serif
DEJAVUSANS.TTF: "DejaVu Sans" "Book"

Need to do more reading
Dave