Re: fontconfig failure on Fedora x86_64 systems

[Michael D Godfrey]

John,

My debug output starts with:
octave:1> backend("fltk")
octave:2> haber
b_th = 1.438775e+04
Theoretical max energy (T = 2320) at lambda:   1.249
Planck      max energy (T = 2320) at           1.249 E(lambda) = 8.968e+01
Wien        max energy (T = 2320) at           1.240 E(lambda) = 8.907e+01
octave:3> FC_DEBUG=1
FC_DEBUG=1
Match Pattern has 14 elts (size 16)
    family: "DejaVu Sans"(w) "DejaVu LGC Sans"(w) "DejaVu LGC Sans"(w) "FreeSans"(w) "Bitstream Vera Sans"(w) "DejaVu Sans"(w) "Verdana"(w) "Arial"(w) "Albany AMT"(w) "Luxi Sans"(w) "Nimbus Sans L"(w) "Helvetica"(w) "Lucida Sans Unicode"(w) "BPG Glaho International"(w) "Tahoma"(w) "Nachlieli"(w) "Lucida Sans Unicode"(w) "Yudit Unicode"(w) "Kerkis"(w) "ArmNet Helvetica"(w) "Artsounk"(w) "BPG UTF8 M"(w) "Waree"(w) "Loma"(w) "Garuda"(w) "Umpush"(w) "Saysettha Unicode"(w) "JG Lao Old Arial"(w) "GF Zemen Unicode"(w) "Pigiarniq"(w) "B Davat"(w) "B Compset"(w) "Kacst-Qr"(w) "Urdu Nastaliq Unicode"(w) "Raghindi"(w) "Mukti Narrow"(w) "malayalam"(w) "Sampige"(w) "padmaa"(w) "Hapax Berbère"(w) "MS Gothic"(w) "UmePlus P Gothic"(w) "SimSun"(w) "PMingLiu"(w) "WenQuanYi Zen Hei"(w) "WenQuanYi Bitmap Song"(w) "AR PL ShanHeiSun Uni"(w) "AR PL New Sung"(w) "MgOpen Modata"(w) "VL Gothic"(w) "IPAMonaGothic"(w) "IPAGothic"(w) "Sazanami Gothic"(w) "Kochi Gothic"(w) "AR PL KaitiM GB"(w) "AR PL KaitiM Big5"(w) "AR PL ShanHeiSun Uni"(w) "AR PL SungtiL GB"(w) "AR PL Mingti2L Big5"(w) "ＭＳ ゴシック"(w) "ZYSong18030"(w) "TSCu_Paranar"(w) "UnDotum"(w) "Baekmuk Dotum"(w) "Baekmuk Gulim"(w) "KacstQura"(w) "Lohit Bengali"(w) "Lohit Gujarati"(w) "Lohit Hindi"(w) "Lohit Marathi"(w) "Lohit Maithili"(w) "Lohit Kashmiri"(w) "Lohit Konkani"(w) "Lohit Nepali"(w) "Lohit Sindhi"(w) "Lohit Punjabi"(w) "Lohit Tamil"(w) "Meera"(w) "Lohit Malayalam"(w) "Lohit Kannada"(w) "Lohit Telugu"(w) "Lohit Oriya"(w) "LKLUG"(w) "Padauk"(w) "UnDotum"(w) "FreeSans"(w) "Arial Unicode MS"(w) "Arial Unicode"(w) "Code2000"(w) "Code2001"(w) "Meera"(w) "sans-serif"(w) "Roya"(w) "Koodak"(w) "Terafik"(w) "sans-serif"(w) "sans-serif"(w) "sans-serif"(w) "FreeMono"(w) "monospace"(w)
    slant: 0(i)(s)
    weight: 80(i)(s)
=======================================================================

But, does not match the font:

Best score 0 0 100 200 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2.14735e+11Pattern has 19 elts (size 19)
	family: "Bitstream Vera Sans"(w)
	familylang: "en"(w)
	style: "Roman"(w)
	stylelang: "en"(w)
	fullname: "Bitstream Vera Sans"(w)
	fullnamelang: "en"(w)
	slant: 0(i)(w)
	weight: 80(i)(w)
	width: 100(i)(w)
	foundry: "bitstream"(w)
	file: "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera/Vera.ttf"(w)
	index: 0(i)(w)
	outline: FcTrue(w)
==================================================================================

I will look at it a bit more tonight.
I did notice that I do not have:
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera/Vera.ttf

I only have the freefont/  fonts down that path.

I think that there is something over-restrictive in the search pattern.

Michael


Michael

	scalable: FcTrue(w)