[Mlt-devel] MLT font property

[Dan D. <da...@de...>]

Brian, previously you had mentioned the possibility to have a special
property type for fonts to unify their specification between
pango-based dynamictext and potentially a qimage-based variant. I
would like to split the 'font' property in the pango producer, and
stop using this as a composite property. If you look at the
pango_font_description API, I think you will see that it is fairly
complicated, and I do not welcome that unnecessary complication within
MLT. We would end up having to reproduce that code because a
dependency on pango is not permitted in the framework. I think we
should do this before integrating dynamictext into kdenlive. I want to
keep 'font' for legacy support, indicate it as deprecated in metadata,
and replace it with 'family' (typeface), 'size', 'style' , 'stretch',
and 'gravity'. I am not sure whether to include a 'variant' or simply
a "smallcaps' boolean property.

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