On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 08:53:22PM -0700, M. Kirchhoff wrote: > As an addition, note that this guide will cover only the X core font system. > AFAIK (and correct me if I'm wrong), fontconfig is not available under Stable, > which rules out a discussion of Xft at this time... > > I'm pledging to keep the guide up-to-date, so at some point it will cover the > transition from the core system to the Xft rendering system... > > -M. > > A font guide for Debian would be very useful; there seem to be few if any people who think they have a real handle on what's going on, at least in its entirety.
I posted some discoveries I made to debian-user and debian-kde about a couple of months ago, and there was some good discussion in those threads. Personally, I think restricting the focus to stable, or just certain aspects of it, is a bit limiting, but it's your call. My impression is that a lot of the confusion comes from the sheer number of different mechanisms, so you need to discuss all of them to really orient people. Font handling is also a fairly rapidly changing target, and today's testing is tomorrow's stable (well, maybe next year's!). The owner of fontconfig has provided some additional clarification/explanation of the relation between some of the font handling mechanisms in Debian in the latest package; I haven't seen it yet, but it's likely illuminating (it was in response to a request of mine to say more about the relation between fontconfig, defoma, XFree, and other font options). I also encourage you to feed what you find to the authors of the other, non-Debian, FAQs. Thanks for taking this on. P.S. I get the feeling that's not a real email address in your return, but I'll try it anyway. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]