lways be returned, but
doesn't ensure that it is anything like the requested pattern.
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Font matching starts with an application constructed pattern.  The desired
attributes of the resulting font are collected together in a pattern.  Each
property of the pattern can contain one or more values; these are listed in
priority order; matches earlier in the list are considered "closer" than
matches later in the list.
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>The initial pattern is modified by applying the list of editing instruc