Gentoo Archives: gentoo-desktop-research

From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>
To: gentoo-desktop-research@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-desktop-research] Fonts rendering and configuration Was: One research problem we could research
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 10:06:20
Message-Id: 200310101206.16773.pauldv@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-desktop-research] Fonts rendering and configuration Was: One research problem we could research by dams@idm.fr
1 On Friday 10 October 2003 11:46, dams@×××.fr wrote:
2 > Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o> said:
3 >
4 > yep.
5 >
6 > Do you have (foser and you) some kind of research directions for this font
7 > problem?
8 >
9 > I've noticed in the thread :
10 >
11 > -changing default by configuring fontconfig better : be carefull of
12 > subjective way of doing this, and avoid crashing non western font rendering
13 >
14 > -writing documentation : what is the dubject : only fontconfig
15 > configuration? how to avoid transformation in long and useless doc?
16 >
17
18 I think the documentation should also contain minimal corefonts docs (standard
19 X font installation for apps that don't use Xft2/fontconfig (yet)). And how
20 to best setup your X (For example if you make sure that the resolution that X
21 reports is square, your fonts will look a lot better)
22
23 Paul
24
25 --
26 Paul de Vrieze
27 Gentoo Developer
28 Mail: pauldv@g.o
29 Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net

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