Re: [Mlterm-dev-en] Requesting "regular" font style

[Araki K. <ara...@us...>]

 Hi,

From: "Yuri D'Elia" <wa...@th...>
Subject: [Mlterm-dev-en] Requesting "regular" font style
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2018 12:23:32 +0100
Message-ID: <87a...@wa...>

> My aafont file right now contains:
> 
> ISO10646_UCS4_1=PragmataPro Mono
> 
> where "PragmataPro Mono" is the family of the font.
> Unfortunately, the Bold weight doesn't contain some UTF8 symbols.
> As such, I'd like to do the following:
> 
> U+2219-2219_BOLD=PragmataPro Mono Regular
> 
> to explicitly select the regular variant as a fallback.
> However, it doesn't work. I guess due to the space in the family name.
> 
> The fontconfig spec PragmataPro Mono:style=Regular is not
> accepted either as far I understood the config syntax, since ":" is
> interpreted in a different way.

 https://bitbucket.org/arakiken/mlterm/commits/a2f8558d621ed6a9d32844996f2f17632bdedbf7
commit supports the fontconfig spec.
 mlterm 3.8.8 will support it.

> How can I force the regular variant then?
> Also, is there a better way to specify fallback fonts, like "urxvt"
> does? For instance, I'd like to specify the "regular" variant if a
> glypth is missing in the bold face as opposed to listing unicode ranges.

 Do you specify "xft" as the value of "type_engine" option?
 Doesn't "type_engine = cairo" improve it?
 If "type_engine = cairo", mlterm falls back other fonts (according to the
fontconfig settings) when a glyph is missing.

 Regards,
---
Araki Ken
ara...@us...