On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 11:28:17PM -0400, Josh Rickmar wrote:
On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 11:02:58PM -0400, Kris Maglione wrote:
I still don't think that the auto-hinter is nearly up to par with
designer hinted fonts. For the fonts that I have screen and print
varieties from different foundaries, th
On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 11:02:58PM -0400, Kris Maglione wrote:
> I still don't think that the auto-hinter is nearly up to par with
> designer hinted fonts. For the fonts that I have screen and print
> varieties from different foundaries, the versions without hinting
> information look considerably
On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 01:50:24AM +0100, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote:
Last I really checked the autohinter had become very good. A few years
ago I actually recompiled freetype to disable the interpreter because the
autohinter produced so much better results for me. I suspect that was due
to my u
On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 10:53 PM, Kris Maglione wrote:
> I use Xft with wmii wihout antialiasing, because I do need UTF-8 support and
> the X font system doesn't get it right for me.
This is why I prefer Xft. The X font system is horrible about UTF-8.
At least if you throw enough fonts at xft it'
On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 02:40:32AM +, hiro wrote:
Don't tell me Arial is a bad font.
And about this aliasing shit: my printer doesn't show it.
Is this really a matter of taste? Or my younger eyes?
Don't be a fool. Your printer doesn't show it because it has 10
times the horizontal resoluti
There was a time where I pitied myself for growing up with dos and
windows boxes all arround.
That's changed a lot...
I sometimes still open notepad on my old xp machine just to get that
nice and warm feeling I had when I discovered the search-and-replace
function as a little kid.
It all fits toget
On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 02:20:47AM +0100, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote:
On 1 Sep 2010, at 8:30 pm, Kris Maglione wrote:
On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 06:00:17PM +0100, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote:
Connor Lane Smith wrote:
If someone were to write a simple clean xft patch for libdraw it
could be usefu
Don't tell me Arial is a bad font.
And about this aliasing shit: my printer doesn't show it.
Is this really a matter of taste? Or my younger eyes?
On 1 Sep 2010, at 8:30 pm, Kris Maglione wrote:
On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 06:00:17PM +0100, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote:
Connor Lane Smith wrote:
If someone were to write a simple clean xft patch for libdraw it
could be useful, perhaps even integrated into mainline.
This may just be my limited
On 3 Sep 2010, at 8:49 pm, Kris Maglione wrote:
On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 08:56:22PM +0200, hiro wrote:
Admittedly, the newer auto-hinters do a decent job of this these
days
The freetype autohinter?
http://freetype.sourceforge.net/autohinting/hinter.html#screenshots
Perhaps this is outdated,
On 2 Sep 2010, at 10:06 am, Stefan Mark wrote:
Im not sure if this is right, but most Terminals seem to make bold
text also bright. Some programs, like htop for example, rely on this.
You missed a word: some broken programs. Not only was bright for bold
was a hack for very brain-damaged de
On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 01:44:06PM +0200, Szabolcs Nagy wrote:
i'm involved in a c parsing tool project, c99tree,
and pleased to announce its first release
http://repo.hu/projects/libporty
it is in early development, but it can parse c99 code
(without includes and preprocessor tokens) and print
i'm involved in a c parsing tool project, c99tree,
and pleased to announce its first release
http://repo.hu/projects/libporty
it is in early development, but it can parse c99 code
(without includes and preprocessor tokens) and print
an abstract syntax tree
eg useful for listing function calls of
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