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8621	Deprecate Xorg bitmap fonts.	ken@…	ken@…	"As I suggested on the list, move a minimal bitmap font to a separate page (now called legacy), along with old libXfont and bdftopcf. One the Xorg fonts page reduce the fonts to only TTF and Type1. And change Xorg-7.7 to Xorg-7 in page titles.

In the book, tigervnc will require the legacy packages because it still uses an old xorg-server, and xscreensaver can benefit from the 100dpi fonts (while checking on a wording change, I came upon an old doc from 2002 recommending 100dpi fonts for screens >= 1024x768, so I guess the 75dpi really are redundant.

It is my understanding that none of the packages on the fonts page are now required by other packages in the book '''provided''' a TTF/OTF monotype font is installed for xterm and other TTF/OTF fonts for other desktop packages.

Following comments from akiezher I have reinstated the Adobe Utopia Type1 font which had fallen out, and reworded the text at the start of the Xorg legacy page.

But I have no wish to spend time bike-shedding on -dev about the wording (it can be changed at any time), nor about whether we should keep the full set of ugly bitmap fonts on the legacy page.

Revised versions of both books at [http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~ken/deprecate-bitmap-fonts/]

So, a simple question : Do, or Not do ?"	enhancement	closed	normal	8.0	BOOK	SVN	medium	fixed