Re: System fonts

[Rogelio Serrano]

On 2004-08-26 18:35:17 +0800 Banlu Kemiyatorn 
<object@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 18:54:54 +0900, Kazunobu Kuriyama
> <kazunobu.kuriyama@nifty.com> wrote:
>
> > > I think Yen-Ju is quite clear about the latin characters 
> > > provided by
> > > the CJK fonts
> > > that is ugly.
> > Do you?  It's still not clear to me what you mean by that...
>
> I meant he doesn't like the latin glyph provided in Chinese 
> font.
> Because he thinks it's ugly.  If he doesn't like it because it 
> didn't
> do kerning and using correct ligatures, why should we 
> discussing
> glyph substitution in backend rather freetype support (which 
> already
> support kerning and partly support ligature) ? He also 
> mentioned
> Terminal.app (which didn't use text system). How that relate to
> kerning and ligature since Terminal shouldn't use any kind of 
> font
> rather mono type?
>
> regards,
> ]d
>
>
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Why dont we use fontconfig and freetype?

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