Re: helvetica-narrow fonts on sid
> KDEs fonts are managed by fontconfig. In /etc/fonts you will find two files
> (fonts.conf and local.conf) that between them define the directories to look
> for fonts and the assumptions made to map font names being requested on to
> real fonts.
>
> The game is for you to modify local.conf to do what you want and leave
> fonts.conf to be created by debian.
>
> - From what you say, my suspicion is that you are missing a <dir>/path to
> font</dir> from your fonts.conf file and so fontconfig is finding the
> nearest.
But how do I debug this? Looking at thte fontconfig "help" pages, there's no
method to differentiate between "styles" like narrow or condesned. I also
don't know what KDE is actually asking for when it asks for helvetica, Bold,
12. Is it an old-style XLFD (like -*-helvetica-*-normal-12*-) or some wierd,
new, undocumented fontconfig thing?
I don't know how to know what KDE is asking for or what the process fontconfig
goes through to find the font file, or even if it uses the fonts.alias file.
Anyone else here know?
Frank
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