On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 10:46:02PM +0200, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > There is no relationship whatsoever between the FreeType module and > AA. AA is done for client-side fonts by Keith's Xft library. Xft > doesn't require the FreeType module. > > (It is true that older versions of the Freetype module did implement a > hackish form of AA. This support has never been completed, it was > never documented, and has been deleted months ago at any rate.) > > On a side note, there's no relationship between X-Tt and East-Asian > encodings. East-Asian encodings are perfectly well supported by the > FreeType module. It is true, however, that the TTCap hack supported > by X-TT and not by FreeType happens to be very popular in East-Asian > locales for reasons that are best understood from a Marxist viewpoint.
Heh.
> All of this is described, of course, in great detail in the XFree86
> fonts documentation (README.fonts).
Can you suggest some replacement text for the following, then?
The freetype module should be used for Western languages and
anti-aliased font support; the xtt module should be used for
East Asian character set support (specifically, for CID-keyed
fonts).
I'm just looking for a way, preferably in one sentence, to tell newbies
which module to pick.
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