On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Mike FABIAN wrote: > Jungshik Shin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> さんは書きました: > > > On Sat, 2 Aug 2003, Chisato Yamauchi wrote: > > > >> Have you seen CJK's *TYPICAL* fonts.dir of TrueType fonts? > >> It is following: > > > > Not many people would be fond of tweaking fonts.dir/scale files > > these days :-)
> It can be automatically generated. The /usr/sbin/fonts-config script > on SuSE Linux generates such TTCap entries automatically into the > fonts.dir if it detects that xtt is enabled in /etc/X11/XF86Config. That sounds nice. It'll certainly make things easier. However, it could make some people frustrated if it just overwrites the existing fonts.dir (I don't know whether fonts-config on SuSE Linux does that or not) that was 'hand-tweaked' to their satisfaction. In the past, I made it a rule to back up fonts.dir/fonts.scale after losing heavily customized fonts.dir/fonts.scale to an automated tool a couple of times. > I agree that the old X fonts are broken beyond repair and we should > move on to use fontconfig/Xft as much as possible. > > The old font system must be kept for backwards compatibility of course > but it is probably just a waste of effort to add more extensions the > X11 core font system. Much better said than mine. This is exactly what I meant but apparently my choice of words was not that good. If I had thought that support for X11 core fonts need to be removed _now_, I wouldn't have spent my time on gb18030.2000-1 issue (Xfree86 bug 441) let alone fixing bugs in CJK font encoding files for freetype module last year. Jungshik _______________________________________________ Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
