>>>>> "Yann" == Yann Collete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Yann> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
>>  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 microsoft free fonts, which have been withdrawn; and the later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.
Yann> Hello,

Yann> What about a management of the fonts needed by lyx "ala xdvi" ?
Yann> If lyx needs a certain font, it uses a tetex tool to generate
Yann> the font, store this font in a directory and use it.

Well, lyx depends on X to get its fonts (or directly on qt for the qt
version). I think that what you propose would be a bit complicated,
but in theory it is possible by implementing a new painter and a new
fontloader (I mean, all these things are nicely separated now).

JMarc

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