[GRASS-dev] Can't get font face index to work

[Glynn Clements]

William Kyngesburye wrote:

> Any index I try is displaying the same default face 0.
> 
> Bypassing the freetypecap for now so I can try it:
> 
> d.font path="/System/Library/Fonts/Times.dfont"
> d.text -m text="some text"
> 
> -> Times roman used
> 
> d.font path="/System/Library/Fonts/Times.dfont|1"
> d.text -m text="some text"
> 
> -> Times roman
> 
> ...
> 
> d.font path="/System/Library/Fonts/Times.dfont|4"
> d.text -m text="some text"
> 
> -> Times roman
> 
> This one is outside the range of available faces (4) in this font file.
> 
> 
> Tried putting them in the freetypecap:
> 
> Times0:/System/Library/Fonts/Times.dfont|0:utf-8:
> Times1:/System/Library/Fonts/Times.dfont|1:utf-8:
> Times2:/System/Library/Fonts/Times.dfont|2:utf-8:
> Times3:/System/Library/Fonts/Times.dfont|3:utf-8:
> 
> d.font doesn't complain, but when I click where I want to draw the  
> text, it says "WARNING: unable to open font map 'Times0'"

Weird. I would expect specifying an explicit path to fail, as the
driver code checks for the existence of the file before stripping the
index. Using a name from the freetypecap file should work, though.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>