Re: Fonts and readability

[Alan Shutko <ats acm org>]

Edwin Young <edwin@snufkin.f9.co.uk> writes:

> So in summary there are three separate things required to make
> gnome/X/linux etc a decent platform for typography:
> 
> 1) Truetype support & antialiased text in X.

Don't forget that most publishing is still (afaik) done in T1 fonts.
So we really need a good T1 renderer for X... I knew X's was bad,
but I didn't realize how bad till I saw Sergey's post.

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