#8621: Deprecate Xorg bitmap fonts.
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Reporter: ken@… | Owner: blfs-book@…
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 7.11
Component: BOOK | Version: SVN
Severity: normal | Keywords:
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As I suggested on the list, move a minimal bitmap font to a separate page
(now called legacy), along with old libXfont and bdftopcf. One the Xorg
fonts page reduce the fonts to only TTF and Type1. And change Xorg-7.7 to
Xorg-7 in page titles.
In the book, tigervnc will require the legacy packages because it still
uses an old xorg-server, and xscreensaver can benefit from the 100dpi
fonts (while checking on a wording change, I came upon an old doc from
2002 recommending 100dpi fonts for screens >= 1024x768, so I guess the
75dpi really are redundant.
It is my understanding that none of the packages on the fonts page are now
required by other packages in the book '''provided''' a TTF/OTF monotype
font is installed for xterm and other TTF/OTF fonts for other desktop
packages.
Following comments from akiezher I have reinstated the Adobe Utopia Type1
font which had fallen out, and reworded the text at the start of the Xorg
legacy page.
But I have no wish to spend time bike-shedding on -dev about the wording
(it can be changed at any time), nor about whether we should keep the full
set of ugly bitmap fonts on the legacy page.
Revised versions of both books at [http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~ken
/deprecate-bitmap-fonts/]
So, a simple question : Do, or Not do ?
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