Re: fonts

[Soren Harward <soren cinternet net>]

I got xsftt running on my system after downloading a precompiled server
and about a hour of messing kludge-ing (with good instructions, it can be
done in about 10 minutes), but it looks SWEET, and now I have about 1800
fonts on my system instead of just 200-some.

Does anyone know of XFree86 4.0 will support TrueType?  It's definitely
an area that should be handled by X and not GNOME, but I think we
(and I bet this would be one area on which KDE agree with us and possibly 
even collaborate) should encourage (and help, if possible) the XFree86
people to add TrueType support because the majority of the Windows world
doesn't even recognize that there are font formats other than TrueType.

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On Sat, 22 Aug 1998, Nelson Minar wrote:

[snip]
>X can do TrueType fonts, which opens up a lot of options
>  (XFree86 by itself? There's also a truetype font server, Xfstt)
>
[snip]
>
>I don't know what the right way to go forward with this is. Maybe some
>of the GNOME developers already have plans. If not, maybe we should
>think about what a standard GNOME font selector should look like and
>whether there are enough fonts in XFree86 to cover common needs. My
>guess is that scaled fonts in X are fine, we just need to build a
>better selector. The screen font situation is harder - maybe a second
>selector specifically for those contexts would work. And GNOME might
>want to ship some fancier fonts to go along with what's in XFree86:
>the freefonts are a good place to start, and maybe we can find some
>more screen fonts somewhere.
>