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bug#14993: [PATCH] Update information about fonts
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#14993: [PATCH] Update information about fonts |
Date: |
Fri, 02 Aug 2013 16:51:02 +0300 |
> From: Kenichi Handa <handa@gnu.org>
> Cc: xfq.free@gmail.com, 14993@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 22:10:57 +0900
>
> In article <83k3k6wx44.fsf@gnu.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > Btw, if we are deprecating Intlfonts, should we keep ps-bdf.el? And
> > if we drop ps-bdf.el, can we add some ps-otf.el instead? Perhaps
> > Handa-san could comment on this.
>
> I was working on ps-ttf.el several years ago, but couldn't
> finish it because of lack of time, and that code didn't have
> a facility of CTL (Complex Text Layouting). Nowadays I
> think we can utilize cairo to generate ps or pdf, but I'm
> not sure I can find a time to work on it.
In that case, perhaps it's too soon to deprecate Intlfonts, since
there's no other way of printing non-ASCII characters with ps-print.