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From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>
To: gentoo-desktop-research@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-desktop-research] One research problem we could research
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 14:14:04
Message-Id: 200310091614.03684.pauldv@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-desktop-research] One research problem we could research by foser
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4 On Thursday 09 October 2003 15:43, foser wrote:
5 > On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 15:22, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
6 > > If that is the only way then we might come to the conclusion that the
7 > > best solution is to wait. I do think though that at least good
8 > > documentation might be another solution.
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10 > Documenting fonts is like setting defaults : a disaster, what you like
11 > on your monitor looks pretty bad on another persons LCD, etc. It's so
12 > much a personal thing that setting up defaults will always upset some
13 > users. And should such a document support legacy font support (xfs, xft1
14 > etc. ?). I guess one could set up a document describing what is possible
15 > in configuring xft2/fontconfig.
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17 I was thinking more like an updated font deuglyfication guide (http://
18 www.tldp.org/HOWTO/FDU/) but then specific for gentoo and without all the
19 fontserver and netscape communicator crap, and with fontconfig etc.
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21 Paul
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