To summarize the discussion so far: - The general development direction in the XFree86 tree is towards client side fonts, although new efforts like ST are favoring server side font handling. - One of the primary justifications for client side fonts is the slow pace of X server development and the difficulty of supporting legacy X servers - X protocol was designed at a time when the distinction between characters and glyphs was not very important (hence the language in the protocol and the man pages)
Are these points a good basis to continue further discussion or do we have a significant number of people disagreeing with the above ? To add some context to this discussion - it started out of a review of IndiX - http://rohini.ncst.ernet.in/indix/ - an effort to support Indian languages using XFree86. IndiX takes a server side font rendering approach. -Arun _______________________________________________ Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
