From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 25 14:50:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA28119 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 25 Jan 1998 14:50:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA28102; Sun, 25 Jan 1998 14:50:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chuckr@glue.umd.edu) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA25742; Sun, 25 Jan 1998 17:49:54 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 25 Jan 1998 17:49:54 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@localhost To: albast cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Where's gcvt(3) ?? In-Reply-To: <199801252207.XAA14890@xs2.xs4all.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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 > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- 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! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------