Re: DiaFont abstraction and namespacing

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Hans Breuer wrote:
> Your name suggestions are well choosen. At least they match what
> micro$oft calls them.
> IMHO the best thing to do is suggest them as additions to Pango
> on bugzilla with your good arguments but less 'offending' ;-)
> Having a link to the bugzilla bug in the source than wouldn't
> hurt either. [I fear they won't be added to the official Pango
> API due to ABI compatibility issues though.

Since the enum defines each entry, it doesn't break backwards
compatibility. 

> If you cc: me on the created bug I'll try to submit a patch for
> pango/win32.

It has been done.

I have also now reverted to NORMAL_WEIGHT=0.  The hacks were not as
horrible as I expected, but we now have 'Normal', 'Oblique' and 'Italic'
as the first three entries in the styles menu, even above the Ultralight.
Not sure if that is good or bad.

-Lars

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