Re: about the meson build systel

2020-08-25 Thread Keith Packard
Werner LEMBERG writes: >>> BTW, how well does meson support cross compilation? >> >> it does support cross-compilation a lot better than cmake >> on Windows (though compilation fails because of mmap) : > > Thanks for checking. I've done some experimentation with 'picolibc', which uses meson

Re: Gitlab Migration Progress

2020-08-25 Thread Keith Packard
Werner LEMBERG writes: > and I couldn't find a commercial feature that would be necessary for > us. Am I missing something? People at the Gnome foundation worked with gitlab to add enough features to the free version to make Gnome developers happy. Seems to be working fine for freedesktop

Re: Gitlab Migration Progress

2020-08-24 Thread Keith Packard
Werner LEMBERG writes: >> It is not about UI but about community. To me, >> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org feels like the right community to >> move in. Thanks to Alan for the invitation. The other two >> communities are too crowded and too commercial. > > Mhmm, I think gitlab is a good

Re: Build system considerations

2020-04-30 Thread Keith Packard
David Turner writes: > for ten different Unix-like system is a portability nightmare. > On the other hand, building them for a standard Linux distribution, or OS > X, is a well known problem, so we may consider keeping autotools/libtool as > an escape hatch for esoteric systems that still exist,

Re: [Freetype-devel] Re: Build system considerations

2020-04-30 Thread Keith Packard
suzuki toshiya writes: > Is there any recommended alternative? Or, should we accept > the "modern" situation where we have to execute twice to build > shared and static libraries? X and Mesa have switched to Meson, and I've used it in a couple of other projects (including picolibc). On POSIX

Re: [ft-devel] Switching to Git ?

2009-02-23 Thread Keith Packard
On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 19:25 +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote: Well, a direct import is trivial; however, it would be beneficial to walk over, say, the last 1000 to 2000 commits so that all get a nice one-line title. My 'parsecvs' tool will probably handle freetype's CVS repository fairly well.

[ft-devel] Fonts with partial-coverage bitmap strikes

2007-10-30 Thread Keith Packard
I'd like to be able to know when Freetype will use a strike size for an FT_Face after the size has been specified. This will let me select monochrome rendering for any glyphs which don't happen to have bitmaps in the strike. Right now, I've coded up a fairly ugly hack which attempts to guess when

Re: [ft] Tweaking/Improving FreeType Antialiasing

2006-08-27 Thread Keith Packard
a different route ? I'm not sure. If I remember correctly, Keith Packard explicitly decided that he didn't want the filtering to cross pixel borders because that might possibly confuse xterm and other character cell based software. Stupid reason, if you ask me. Lame, perhaps, but still

Re: [ft] Tweaking/Improving FreeType Antialiasing

2006-08-27 Thread Keith Packard
On Sun, 2006-08-27 at 23:57 +0200, Tor Andersson wrote: I'm not sure I understand this. What's your definition of character metrics here? I'm grounded in the postscript world where the only metrics that matter are the origin and advance width. For many applications, the extent of the rendered

Re: [ft] Get non-ASCII font family name

2006-07-13 Thread Keith Packard
On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 09:58 +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 15:52:23 -0700 Tom Fukushima [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What does the last sentence mean? Since FreeType2 provides unified API for various font formats, the fundamental API is designed for ASCII font name:

Re: [ft] Creating an [OT]TF font from BDF font

2006-01-17 Thread Keith Packard
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 15:12 -0800, George Williams wrote: I was told so when I implemented them in fontforge. But I wasn't in the initial discussions so I'm not the best source. I also recall discussions which discovered that the .otb extension was otherwise unused in most of the world. It

Re: [ft] Creating an [OT]TF font from BDF font

2005-12-12 Thread Keith Packard
On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 20:12 +0100, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: Keith, I'm not quite sure what you mean by ``round-trip'', but that might be more difficult than you think: as you've surely noticed, fonttosfnt crops glyphs by default, as there's no reason to propagate X's ``-c-'' fonts into

Re: [ft] Creating an [OT]TF font from BDF font

2005-12-08 Thread Keith Packard
On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 01:07 +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote: Hmm, why not simply adding a special `BDF ' table which holds all properties? This should be straightforward, and you get lossless conversion. Yes, this was my plan. I got side-tracked before I managed to implement it though. I need

Re: [ft] full-color bitmap font format with transparency...

2005-07-16 Thread Keith Packard
On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 17:33 -0400, Jeremiah Coyle wrote: Hello, Wondering if FreeType supports any font format which supports 32bit color depth and transparency. SVG seems like a better plan to me. Glyph-based tools all assume that glyphs are purely shape information and have no intrinsic