[Fonts] Re: After-XTT's extension of the encoding field.

[Mike FABIAN]

Jungshik Shin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> $B$5$s$O=q$-$^$7$?(B:
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(B> On Sat, 2 Aug 2003, Chisato Yamauchi wrote:
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(B>>   Have you seen CJK's *TYPICAL* fonts.dir of TrueType fonts?
(B>> It is following:
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(B>  Not many people would be fond of tweaking fonts.dir/scale files
(B> these days :-)
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(BIt can be automatically generated.  The /usr/sbin/fonts-config script
(Bon SuSE Linux generates such TTCap entries automatically into the
(Bfonts.dir if it detects that xtt is enabled in /etc/X11/XF86Config.
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(BCurrently it generates only entries for artifical bold and italic
(Bfor fonts which do not yet have real bold and italic versions.
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(BI could extended it to support more features of TTCap, but I'm not
(Bsure whether it is worth the effort.
(B
(BI agree that the old X fonts are broken beyond repair and we should
(Bmove on to use fontconfig/Xft as much as possible.
(B
(BThe old font system must be kept for backwards compatibility of course
(Bbut it is probably just a waste of effort to add more extensions the
(BX11 core font system.
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(B-- 
(BMike Fabian   <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>   http://www.suse.de/~mfabian
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