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From: dams@...
Subject: Re: Fonts rendering and configuration Was: One research problem we could research
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 12:23:05 +0200
Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o> said:

> On Friday 10 October 2003 11:46, dams@... wrote:
>> Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o> said:
>>
>> yep.
>>
>> Do you have (foser and you) some kind of research directions for this font
>> problem?
>>
>> I've noticed in the thread :
>>
>> -changing default by configuring fontconfig better : be carefull of
>> subjective way of doing this, and avoid crashing non western font rendering
>>
>> -writing documentation : what is the dubject : only fontconfig
>> configuration? how to avoid transformation in long and useless doc?
>>
>
> I think the documentation should also contain minimal corefonts docs (standard 
> X font installation for apps that don't use Xft2/fontconfig (yet)).

Yes that's right

> And how 
> to best setup your X (For example if you make sure that the resolution that X 
> reports is square, your fonts will look a lot better)

oh that sounds good :)
Sure, a list of tricks to make it better would be great

-- 
dams

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