[dev] [OT] c syntax tree dumping tool

2010-09-05 Thread Szabolcs Nagy
i'm involved in a c parsing tool project, c99tree, and pleased to announce its first release http://repo.hu/projects/libporty it is in early development, but it can parse c99 code (without includes and preprocessor tokens) and print an abstract syntax tree eg useful for listing function calls

Re: [dev] [OT] c syntax tree dumping tool

2010-09-05 Thread Kris Maglione
On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 01:44:06PM +0200, Szabolcs Nagy wrote: i'm involved in a c parsing tool project, c99tree, and pleased to announce its first release http://repo.hu/projects/libporty it is in early development, but it can parse c99 code (without includes and preprocessor tokens) and

Re: [dev] [st] Bold Text should be bright?

2010-09-05 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On 2 Sep 2010, at 10:06 am, Stefan Mark wrote: Im not sure if this is right, but most Terminals seem to make bold text also bright. Some programs, like htop for example, rely on this. You missed a word: some broken programs. Not only was bright for bold was a hack for very brain-damaged

Re: [dev] [patch] dmenu - support for xft font rendering

2010-09-05 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On 3 Sep 2010, at 8:49 pm, Kris Maglione wrote: On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 08:56:22PM +0200, hiro wrote: Admittedly, the newer auto-hinters do a decent job of this these days The freetype autohinter? http://freetype.sourceforge.net/autohinting/hinter.html#screenshots Perhaps this is outdated,

Re: [dev] [patch] dmenu - support for xft font rendering

2010-09-05 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On 1 Sep 2010, at 8:30 pm, Kris Maglione wrote: On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 06:00:17PM +0100, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: Connor Lane Smith wrote: If someone were to write a simple clean xft patch for libdraw it could be useful, perhaps even integrated into mainline. This may just be my limited

Re: [dev] [patch] dmenu - support for xft font rendering

2010-09-05 Thread hiro
Don't tell me Arial is a bad font. And about this aliasing shit: my printer doesn't show it. Is this really a matter of taste? Or my younger eyes?

Re: [dev] [patch] dmenu - support for xft font rendering

2010-09-05 Thread Kris Maglione
On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 02:20:47AM +0100, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: On 1 Sep 2010, at 8:30 pm, Kris Maglione wrote: On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 06:00:17PM +0100, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: Connor Lane Smith wrote: If someone were to write a simple clean xft patch for libdraw it could be

Re: [dev] [st] Bold Text should be bright?

2010-09-05 Thread hiro
There was a time where I pitied myself for growing up with dos and windows boxes all arround. That's changed a lot... I sometimes still open notepad on my old xp machine just to get that nice and warm feeling I had when I discovered the search-and-replace function as a little kid. It all fits

Re: [dev] [patch] dmenu - support for xft font rendering

2010-09-05 Thread Kris Maglione
On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 02:40:32AM +, hiro wrote: Don't tell me Arial is a bad font. And about this aliasing shit: my printer doesn't show it. Is this really a matter of taste? Or my younger eyes? Don't be a fool. Your printer doesn't show it because it has 10 times the horizontal

Re: [dev] [patch] dmenu - support for xft font rendering

2010-09-05 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 10:53 PM, Kris Maglione maglion...@gmail.com wrote: I use Xft with wmii wihout antialiasing, because I do need UTF-8 support and the X font system doesn't get it right for me. This is why I prefer Xft. The X font system is horrible about UTF-8. At least if you throw

Re: [dev] [patch] dmenu - support for xft font rendering

2010-09-05 Thread Kris Maglione
On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 01:50:24AM +0100, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: Last I really checked the autohinter had become very good. A few years ago I actually recompiled freetype to disable the interpreter because the autohinter produced so much better results for me. I suspect that was due to my

Re: [dev] [patch] dmenu - support for xft font rendering

2010-09-05 Thread Josh Rickmar
On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 11:02:58PM -0400, Kris Maglione wrote: I still don't think that the auto-hinter is nearly up to par with designer hinted fonts. For the fonts that I have screen and print varieties from different foundaries, the versions without hinting information look considerably

Re: [dev] [patch] dmenu - support for xft font rendering

2010-09-05 Thread Kris Maglione
On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 11:28:17PM -0400, Josh Rickmar wrote: On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 11:02:58PM -0400, Kris Maglione wrote: I still don't think that the auto-hinter is nearly up to par with designer hinted fonts. For the fonts that I have screen and print varieties from different foundaries,