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On Thursday 09 October 2003 16:33, foser wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 16:14, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> > I was thinking more like an updated font deuglyfication guide (http://
> > www.tldp.org/HOWTO/FDU/) but then specific for gentoo and without all the
> > fontserver and netscape communicator crap, and with fontconfig etc.
>
> That is terribly complicated and outdated for a current setup, it should
> only focus on xft2/fontconfig.
>
I think a small section on making sure that core fonts are reasonable (for
xterm, xedit, etc.) and most on xft2/fontconfig. The other things are the
crap I was talking about.
> And i dislike the naming because it is suggestive, should be very
> neutral named.
I have no problem at all with that. Although at the time that doc was written,
fonts (esp. netscape's) were indeed ugly.
Paul
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