From: Juliusz Chroboczek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Fonts] After-XTT's extension of the encoding field. Date: 04 Sep 2003 17:17:59 +0200 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> TTCap was based on the IMHO erroneous assumption that it is better to > hack extensions to fonts.dir rather than provide an extensible > database for font-related information. Today, we do have just such an > extensible database: fontconfig. > > As far as the implementation goes, TTCap lives in the font backend, > which implies that somebody got the layering wrong. You slightly mistake the fact. I (as the inventor of TTCap) intended TTCap to be just kludge. I did not get the layering wrong and not assume something erroneous, but just intentionally ignored the layering. Actually, I also guess TTCap is not elegant but ugly. However it has been giving surely powerful and practical solution to CJK (at least Japanese) people. > I do not deny that TTCap does work around real problems. However, I > do not believe that TTCap is something we want to follow. It seems for me that not a few users still need TTCap (and X-TT) and several persons want to continue supporting it, although I do not know whether it is better TTCap to be retained more or to be expanded into other backends. I wonder "we" are not homogeneous. # I intend not to say anything more. -- Takuya SHIOZAKI _______________________________________________ Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
