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
