[twenty-years] Chapter outline for The Quest for Beautiful Text



commit 9faff59dee3fa1ddff9fafae3d5fa6cd35ef9271
Author: Federico Mena Quintero <federico gnome org>
Date:   Fri Mar 17 21:53:57 2017 -0600

    Chapter outline for The Quest for Beautiful Text

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 \input{graphics.tex}
 
+\input{text.tex}
+
 \input{hardware.tex}
 
 \input{desktop-shell.tex}
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+\chapter{The Quest for Beautiful Text}
+
+GNOME 1: locale-specific encodings
+
+X11 core fonts: no antialiasing, bad API, Adobe Type 1 only for
+scalable fonts
+
+Freetype - TrueType got popular because of Windows 95
+
+Fontconfig
+
+Unicode appears
+
+Owen writes Pango
+
+Switch to UTF-8 everywhere
+
+Right-to-left
+
+Complex shaping
+
+Efforts for fonts with good Unicode coverage
+
+Cantarell
+
+Pooja makes Cantarell pretty


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