Re: TWM: truetype support

On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Eeri Kask wrote:
> Actually I only had in mind the part considering the memory leak.  You
> have apparently completed a huge work in delaing with fallback to bitmap
> raster fonts if some xft font problems arise.  I never wanted to make
> this issue that complicated (I never even thought about this
> possibility),  :-)   so momentarily I don't yet have any opinion about
> reusing your work in full in this regard.
> (I always considered the significantly simpler approach being enough:
> the user in enabling TWM_USE_XFT voluntarily passes "the point of no
> return"; if xft-font problems arise, then these are to be solved.)

Well, that's the point.  As you have it, the end user does _not_ in fact 
decide on TWM_USE_XFT.  The distributor does.

Marc.

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