Re: DiaFont abstraction and namespacing

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

At 09:47 23.06.02 -0500, Lars Clausen wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Jun 2002, Hans Breuer wrote:
> > At 14:36 23.06.02 +0200, Cyrille Chepelov wrote:
> > > Which comments ? 
> > "The Pango people don't seem to encounter the real world much..."
>
> Oh, that offending comment:)
> I put in that comment after finding that about half of the fonts installed
> on my system, including the standard Microsoft fonts, the weights 500 and
> 600 are used, which are not named at all in the Pango list of weights.
> I've named them 'Medium' and 'Demibold'.  Unfortunately there doesn't seem
> to be any consensus on these names.
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.
If you cc: me on the created bug I'll try to submit a patch for
pango/win32.

        Hans
> -Lars
>
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