Fontconfig problem with italic font!?

[Mats Lidell]

Hi,

Seemingly out of the blue I'm getting this type of fontconfig errors with 21.5:

Fontconfig warning: FcPattern object size does not accept value 100(i)
Fontconfig warning: FcPattern object size does not accept value True

Since I'm constantly upgrading the Linux box, Gentoo, and do lot of other tweaking I have no idea what could cause this. New fontconfig behavior, missing font, problem in XEmacs!? What can it be? Help is needed!

Yours

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Post by Mats Lidell
Fontconfig warning: FcPattern object size does not accept value 100(i)
Fontconfig warning: FcPattern object size does not accept value True

I guess that you (or XEmacs) has font specs that look like
"TimesRoman-Italic" where the key point is that the first hyphen in
the spec is not followed by a number and (optionally) a series of
colon-prefixed options. That is, a fontconfig spec has the syntax

FONTNAME-SIZE:OPTION:OPTION:OPTION...

where in FONTNAME pretty much any character is permitted, except that
"-" and "\" must be escaped by "\". If SIZE is omitted, the prefixing
hyphen must be omitted, too.

My best guess is that you're passing XLFD-style specs to fontconfig.
Those are the ones with up to 14 hyphens in them.

[Mats Lidell]

Post by Stephen J. Turnbull
My best guess is that you're passing XLFD-style specs to fontconfig.
Those are the ones with up to 14 hyphens in them.

Hmm... Well I will have a look at it. Maybe those font specs some how
have crept in again. Thanks for giving me something to go on.

Yours