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Date:      Thu, 5 Nov 1998 13:31:12 +1100
From:      David Dawes <dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, Cejka Rudolf <cejkar@dcse.fee.vutbr.cz>
Cc:        John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ELFoized xtt-SVGA-1.0 & TrueType fonts => HANG
Message-ID:  <19981105133112.I15681@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199811041815.CAA01590@spinner.netplex.com.au>; from Peter Wemm on Thu, Nov 05, 1998 at 02:15:19AM %2B0800
References:  <199811041751.SAA22212@kazi.dcse.fee.vutbr.cz> <199811041815.CAA01590@spinner.netplex.com.au>

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On Thu, Nov 05, 1998 at 02:15:19AM +0800, Peter Wemm wrote:
>Cejka Rudolf wrote:
>> 
>> > I found Xtt to be extremely flakey and astonishingly complicated.
>> > 
>> > Meanwhile, these patches for X11 are pretty simple and work
>> > great: http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/jec/programs/xfsft/
>> 
>> So somebody can make official port xfsft...
>
>I use the freetype (ft) libs built directly into the server.  Ariel on X11
>is disturbing at first. :-)   I had a lot of trouble with xfstt, but that
>was around the same that a change to the socket system disturbed X11 in
>general.

xfstt and xfsft are different.  The latter uses the FreeType library
and the former doesn't.  There is a summary of the options at
http://www.xfree86.org/FAQ#TTF.

David

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