On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 04:14:35PM +0200, Christopher Zimmermann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to fix monospace bitmap font support for gvim (gtk-2 flavor),
> which has been broken since pango 1.44.
> It requires several changes:
> 
> 1. fix metrics rounding in vim https://github.com/vim/vim/pull/6168,
> already included in our vim port.
> 2. fix fonttosfnt in our xenocara or rely on something like fontforge    for
> the same job.
> (https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/fonttosfnt/-/merge_requests/7)
> 3. fix pango, so it does not accidentally use unsupported pcf fonts when
> supported OpenType fonts are present:
>    https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pango/-/issues/484
> 4. ship bitmap fonts in an OpenType container, too.
> 
> Attached is a diff to update pango to the latest release and backport above
> mentioned fix.

This is the latest *development* release, not stable.
I don't think we want this in our tree, do we?

-- 
Antoine

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