[xep-support] Font Alias Problem

[Chris Bowditch]

Hi,

we are currently in the process of translating font configurations from XEP 
3.x to 4.x formats for some of our customers.

Some of our customers have used font aliases that contains spaces, e.g. "Stone 
Bold" XEP 3.x handled this ok, but under 4.x, the space is ignored and the 
alias becomes "StoneBold" Now, consider the following snippet from xep.xml:

<font-alias name="StoneItalic" value="StoneSans-Italic"/>
<font-alias name="Stone Bold" value="StoneSans-Bold"/>
<font-alias name="StoneBold" value="StoneSans-Bold"/>
<font-alias name="StoneSemiBold" value="StoneSans-SemiBold"/>

When XEP encounters the third alias "StoneBold" an error is issued:

[error] file:/C:/xep420/xep.xml: Alias 'StoneBold' redefined; the first 
definition is kept

However, all aliases defined after this has occurred are then ignored and 
later on in the processing XEP issues the warning;

[warning] could not find any font family matching "StoneSemiBold"; replaced by 
Helvetica


but clearly a font alias has been defined for "StoneSemiBold"

Why does XEP insist on removing spaces from font aliases? And if it encounters 
two identical font aliases, why does it ignore all font aliases defined 
afterwards?

Chris

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