[Bug 95043] GTK doesn't deal well with arbitrarily named font styles

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Tomáš Znamenáček changed:

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------- Comment #17 from Tomáš Znamenáček  2008-05-28 14:05 UTC -------
Having more than the four traditional styles is a feature described in the
OpenType specification, see http://www.microsoft.com/OpenType/OTSpec/name.htm:

“For historical reasons, font families have contained a maximum of four
styles, but font designers may group more than four fonts to a single family.
The Preferred Family allows font designers to include the preferred family
grouping which contains more than four fonts. This ID is only present if it is
different from ID 1.”

Many fonts use this feature.


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