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Re: Inaccuracy in NEWS.28
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Inaccuracy in NEWS.28 |
Date: |
Tue, 01 Mar 2022 14:26:41 +0200 |
> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2022 12:54:01 +0800
>
> NEWS.28 says:
>
> Note that building with Cairo means using Pango instead of libXFT for
> font support. Since Pango 1.44 has removed support for bitmapped
> fonts, this may require you to adjust your font settings.
>
> But we don't use Pango anywhere except to parse GTK input method
> information and the output of the GTK font dialog.
>
> Cairo text display is unrelated to Pango, and bitmapped fonts will work
> there as long as they are supported by FreeType. Bitmapped fonts will
> also continue to work with the X server-side font driver, which is
> available in Cairo builds.
>
> So would anyone mind me simply deleting that part of NEWS.28, since it
> is plain out wrong?
I'm not sure it's so plain wrong. This text came out of prolonged
discussions we had back in January 2020 on emacs-devel, and it started
with this report:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2020-01/msg00583.html
Please read that discussion, and also the followups:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2020-01/msg00620.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2020-01/msg00739.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2020-01/msg00870.html
Maybe the description we now have in NEWS.28 is inaccurate, but the
problems were real. So if you think mentioning Pango there is
incorrect (but please explain why, as I don't think I agree with your
reasoning: AFAIK Pango is the text layout engine used by Cairo), then
perhaps we should say something different there to convey the same
message. And the message is still valid, AFAIK.
- Re: Inaccuracy in NEWS.28,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Inaccuracy in NEWS.28, Po Lu, 2022/03/01
- Re: Inaccuracy in NEWS.28, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/03/01
- Re: Inaccuracy in NEWS.28, Po Lu, 2022/03/01
- Re: Inaccuracy in NEWS.28, Robert Pluim, 2022/03/01
- Re: Inaccuracy in NEWS.28, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/03/01
- Re: Inaccuracy in NEWS.28, Po Lu, 2022/03/01
- Re: Inaccuracy in NEWS.28, Robert Pluim, 2022/03/02
- Re: Inaccuracy in NEWS.28, Po Lu, 2022/03/02