Please provide an ordering dimension separate from version
A long time ago when we defined how to merge a font family spread over multiple files with @behdad , we just rewrote font versions so that (for example) the Droid Sans
core provided by Droid Sans
would have a higher version number than the Droid Sans Hebrew
part.
The drawback of this approach is that it replaces the original versions of all affected files, and fontconfig can no longer distinguish between old and newer versions of the same file (all the Droid Sans Hebrew
files get the same new version for example)
Please provide a priorization dimension separate from version, so a fontconfig ruleset can declare Droid Sans
must be merged before Droid Sans Hebrew
, but fontconfig can still order all the Droid Sans Hebrew
files by original version number