Martin Sucha wrote:
"> 2) Add freetype2 to coastline and use it to render OpenType fonts to
> "bitmap on-the-fly (provided that freetype was installed). According
> to its documentation, the library should be pretty straightforward to
> port[1]."
> This would solve the problem with shades of gray. Note that this
> creates a sort of hard dependency of mainline on the coastline. I am
> not saying that it's a bad thing, not sure if we can avoid it in the
> future.
I don't think it will be a hard dependency - if freetype2 is not
available, just use the builtin font or a pcf based font. 
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Well I didn't mean hard as in 'it would not work at all'. But since the 
result of the library's absence would be highly noticeable visual 
degradation (drop from anti-aliased proportional font to non-proportional) 
which is highly undesirable, it could be considered a "hard" dependency just
as well.




-Jiri
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