Ken Moffat wrote:
On Mon, Dec 05, 2016 at 10:59:33AM +0000, akhiezer wrote:
I'm working on a local version - anything to get rid of the old
bitmap fonts for most users, and bring the book kicking and
screaming into the first decade of this century (sic) ;)
Might it be better to separate-out the 'Xorg bitmap fonts' to a separate
set of pages, rather than just removing them altogether from the book
at this stage: it seemed that your proposal intended to do the former;
is that the case?
There are already a lot of pages in the whole book, and I think that
improving how we deal with TTF/OTF fonts might add a few more. So,
if I can produce just one new page (libXfont, bdftopcf, adobe-100dpi
plus a note that there were several other bitmap fonts - see the
7.10 book) I will be happier than creating three.
My first thought *was* to separate each page, but AFAICS only two
packages in the book (tigervnc, xscreensaver) have any use for them
if xterm is configured for 'Monospace' w hi ch we already do.
May I suggest a title of 'Xorg Legacy Issues' that would follow the page
'Xorg-7.7 Testing and Configuration' in Chapter 24.
As an aside, perhaps we should remove '-7.7' from that section title.
-- Bruce
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