pcf was introduced to replace snf in X11R5 in 1991:
http://www.x.org/wiki/X11R5/#index56h3
22 years is long enough to move off a font format that was alive for
less than a decade before that, and widely considered a bad idea even
then:
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/fonts-faq/part15/
Signed-off-by: Alan Coopersmith <[email protected]>
---
README | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/README b/README
index 931821b..65f1aa4 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -43,7 +43,8 @@ configure script takes various options to enable or disable
them:
snf bitmap fonts - standard bitmap font format prior to X11R5 in 1991,
remains only for backwards compatibility. Unlike pcf, snf files
are architecture specific, and contain less font information
- than pcf files.
+ than pcf files. snf fonts are deprecated and may be disabled
+ by default in future libXfont releases.
Enabled by default, disable via --disable-snfformat.
-- Font services:
--
1.7.9.2
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