On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Yu Shao wrote:

>You can try Red Hat 7.3's ttmkfdir which is included in XFree86, it 
>supports Xtt, and works quite good with CJK fonts.

Just to clarify this a bit more, the C++ version of ttmkfdir
included in Red Hat Linux is not a part of XFree86 (thank
goodness), but is included in our XFree86 packages as it made
more sense to include it there than in the freetype package as we
have in the past.

I've personally never liked this version of ttmkfdir, but the 
other versions that are floating around have their issues too, so 
we've kept using this version.

We can't wait to switch over officially to Juliusz's mkfontscale 
in future releases, as it is much cleaner IMHO than any of the 
various ttmkfdir sources out there.  I had even considered using 
mkfontscale in our development-in-progress however time 
constraints and other issues precluded it's inclusion.

There are some known issues in our ttmkfdir, and Yu Shao has done
a great job addressing most of them.  Nonetheless, I look forward
to burying the C++ ttmkfdir in /dev/null in future releases once 
mkfontscale is considered stable to replace it.  ;o)

Many thanks to Juliusz for solving the whole ttmkfdir mess!

Take care,
TTYL

-- 
Mike A. Harris          ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris
OS Systems Engineer
XFree86 maintainer
Red Hat Inc.

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