Bug 205152

behdad, any clue?

Expected.  Fontconfig only has three generic families: serif, sans-serif, and
monospace, while CSS has two more: fantasy and cursive.  I'm tracking this
upstream so eventually we will fix it properly.  For now, I think adding a
custom conf file to our fontconfig package to map cursive to URW Chancery L
should do the job.  If you want that, reassign to fontconfig/me.

Also, suggestions for other fonts that should be alased to cursive and fantasy
are welcome.

In order to fix it properly, we'd need to request fontconfig changes for the
additional font families.

Ofcourse, the temporary solution to map specific fonts would be very helpful.

Below are the detailed descriptions of cursive and fantasy font families as
defined by the W3C:




cursive

Glyphs in cursive fonts, as the term is used in CSS, generally have either
joining strokes or other cursive characteristics beyond those of italic
typefaces. The glyphs are partially or completely connected, and the result
looks more like handwritten pen or brush writing than printed letterwork. Fonts
for some scripts, such as Arabic, are almost always cursive. CSS uses the term
'cursive' to apply to a font for any script, although other names such as
Chancery, Brush, Swing and Script are also used in font names.

Examples of fonts that fit this description include:
Latin fonts 	Caflisch Script, Adobe Poetica, Sanvito, Ex Ponto, Snell Roundhand,
Zapf-Chancery
Cyrillic fonts 	ER Architekt
Hebrew fonts 	Corsiva
Arabic fonts 	DecoType Naskh, Monotype Urdu 507




fantasy

Fantasy fonts, as used in CSS, are primarily decorative while still containing
representations of characters (as opposed to Pi or Picture fonts, which do not
represent characters). Examples include:
Latin fonts 	Alpha Geometrique, Critter, Cottonwood, FB Reactor, Studz

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retested on fc6 as per comment #5.

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This bug still exists in F7 and F8.

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