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[David Allouche <address@hidden>]

On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 11:29:22AM +0200, Norbert Nemec wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 23. Oktober 2003 11:15 schrieb Martin Costabel:
> > On mercredi, oct 22, 2003, at 17:09 Europe/Paris, Norbert Nemec wrote:
> > > Hi there,
> > >
> > > just found out about http://fontconfig.org - the portable solution for
> > > Linux
> > > systems.  Of course - like any real solution - quite complex...
> >
> > I must have overlooked something in this discussion, but I didn' see
> > anyone mentioning that both freetype2 and fontconfig come with xfree86.
> > I don't know what the linux distributions do about this, but at least
> > freetype2 has been part of the xfree86 sources for at least a year
> > since 4.2.0, and fontconfig comes with xfree86-4.3.0 (and on MacOSX
> > with Apple's latest X11 which is xfree86-4.3.0).
> 
> In any case: It is nice to know that xfree86 uses freetype and fontconfig, 
> but 
> the independent libraries should be used for TeXmacs.
> 
> fontconfig of course cannot be as portable as freetype, but it should cover 
> any system running X11, so we only have to worry about Windows and MacOS X.
> That would make three different font configuration backends which should be 
> manageable.

fontconfig definitely is the modern font access tool for GNU systems. It
is also used by KDE3 and GNOME2.

Windows and MacOS most probably have their own homegrown system.

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