Configuration: Example config.yaml? Can I include both exclude_checks and explicit_checks?

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My basic goal is to run the universal profile, with a few useful googlefonts checks added in, and have it create a single ghmarkdown file of check results.

So, I’m trying to use the check-universal profile with an --configuration argument pointing to a YAML file, but I’m having issues.

I have a config.yaml file that looks like this:

---
exclude_checks:
  - com.google.fonts/check/alt_caron
  - com.google.fonts/check/contour_count
  - com.google.fonts/check/math_signs_width
explicit_checks:
  - com.google.fonts/check/name/ascii_only_entries
  - com.google.fonts/check/fstype
  - com.google.fonts/check/name/unwanted_chars
  - com.google.fonts/check/usweightclass
  - com.google.fonts/check/integer_ppem_if_hinted
  - com.google.fonts/check/os2/use_typo_metrics
  - com.google.fonts/check/meta/script_lang_tags

And I’m running it like this:

fontbakery check-universal "fontfamily.ttf" --configuration "fontbakery-config.yaml"

However, I can only get that to work with the check-universal profile if I only have the exclude_checks list. If I include both lists, it seems to run zero checks.

Or, I can get it to work with the check-googlefonts profile, but then it is only checking the few explicit checks.

My goal is to:

• Run almost all the checks in the universal profile, except for a few that don’t make sense for a current family.
• Add in a few useful checks from other profiles.

So, a couple of questions:

1. Am I using the right approach, or should I be doing something else?
2. Is there an example config.yaml file somewhere? So far, I have only found an example of a Python config list in the docs, and some very basic yaml in the code tests. It might be helpful if there were a moderately complex config.yaml example that I could reference.
3. Can I pull in googlefonts checks if I’m running checks-universal?

Thanks so much for any insights!