Date: Sun, 25 Jan 1998 17:49:54 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> To: albast <albast@xs4all.nl> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Where's gcvt(3) ?? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980125174729.341F-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199801252207.XAA14890@xs2.xs4all.nl>
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On Sun, 25 Jan 1998, albast wrote: > Hi, > > Why doesn't FreeBSD (2.2.5) include gcvt(3), which converts > a floating-point number to a string? I don't know about gcvt. Isn't that really easy to do with sprintf, tho? > > I need this one in order to use YACL (http://www.cs.sc.edu/~sridhar/yacl.html) > on my FreeBSD system. > > On a completely different issue; your font documentation states there is > no truetype support for X available. True. > To use truetype fonts you can use the Freetype library. It's still true. XFree86 doesn't support it directly. The truetype stuff thru Freetype is really new, and not integrated into XFree86. Why don't you think about writing a port and adding it to FreeBSD? > ImageMagick 4.0 for instance, has support for the current Freetype library. > > Freetype(-current) can be found at: > ftp://ftp.physiol.med.tu-muenchen.de/pub/freetype/devel/ > > A TrueType fontserver for X can be found at: > ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/X11/fonts/ > > Enjoy, > --Jeroen <albast@xs4all.nl> > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
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