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Re: Inaccuracy in NEWS.28
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Inaccuracy in NEWS.28 |
Date: |
Tue, 01 Mar 2022 15:14:31 +0200 |
> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2022 20:46:59 +0800
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > 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)
>
> Pango is a text layout and font management library which operates on a
> much higher level than cairo. It performs bidirectional reordering, and
> delegates to HarfBuzz for text shaping, along with using FreeType for
> calculating glyph metrics and for opening fonts, and fontconfig to
> enumerate fonts.
>
> Cairo is one of the many libraries that Pango can use to display glyphs
> onto the glass, but is otherwise unrelated to Pango.
Robert, do you agree?
> However, judging by those discussions, there does seem to be some
> problems with cairo and bitmap fonts. So how about saying this instead:
>
> Building with Cairo is known to cause some problems with bitmap fonts.
> This may require you to adjust your font settings, or to build with
> Xft support instead.
Please show a complete patch, it's hard to guess which text you'd like
to replace with this.
Thanks.
- 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,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- 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