Changeset e352fea for x

Timestamp:

11/29/2023 02:57:43 AM (7 months ago)

Author:

Ken Moffat <ken@…>

Branches:

12.1, ken/TL2024, ken/tuningfonts, lazarus, plabs/newcss, python3.11, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, trunk, xry111/llvm18

Children:

551b8ba8

Parents:

f101c437

Message:

tuningfonts -

Remove infromation about hinting from TTF-and-OTF-fonts page,
adding a comment to clarify that infromation about fontconfig
is on the previous page (in case anyone decides to install a
font and lands on the TTF-and-~OTF page).

File:

• x/installing/TTF-and-OTF-fonts.xml (modified) (1 diff)

x/installing/TTF-and-OTF-fonts.xml

@@ -27 +27 @@
       Type1 fonts were added, but the desktop world moved on to using TrueType
       and Open Type fonts. To support these, Xorg uses Xft, the X FreeType
-      interface library.
-    </para>
-
-    <para>
-      These fonts can provide hints, which <application>fontconfig</application>
-      uses to adjust them for maximum readability on computer monitors. On Linux
-      you should always use the hinted versions if they are available (in
-      general the Latin, Cyrillic and Greek alphabets can use hints, most other
-      writing systems do not use hinting).
+      interface library, with fontconfig (see previous page for details of
+      fontconfig including how fonts are selected and various reasons why a
+      font might be ignored).
     </para>