>>>>> "Jacek" == Jacek Pop�awski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Jacek> On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 05:23:48PM +1100, Steven Homolya wrote:
>> I hate to admit it, but this is one area where M$-windows is
>> superior to unix-and-friends.

Jacek> Antialiased fonts are supported for a long time in XFree86.
Jacek> Just let LyX move from XForms!

Antialiased fonts work in the qt port (will be in 1.3.0). We had a
patch to make them work in xforms, but it needed to be rewritten in
proper C++, and this never got done. 

And antialiased fonts are not a panacea: you need to have good fonts
and a good rasterizer. The former is only possible with the microsoft
free fonts, which have been withdrawn; and the later requires to
enable the bytecode interpreter of freetype (the PS rasterizer is just
ugly) and this causes problems with patents held by apple. 

So I really think that the font situation under linux is not so good.

JMarc

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