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List:       xfree-fonts
Subject:    Re: [Fonts] Complex text layout and mapping screen coordinates
From:       Arun Sharma <arun () sharma-home ! net>
Date:       2002-02-26 18:32:46
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To summarize the discussion so far:

- The general development direction in the XFree86 tree is towards client side 
  fonts, although new efforts like ST are favoring server side font
  handling.
- One of the primary justifications for client side fonts is the slow
  pace of X server development and the difficulty of supporting legacy X servers
- X protocol was designed at a time when the distinction between
  characters and glyphs was not very important (hence the language
  in the protocol and the man pages)

Are these points a good basis to continue further discussion or do we
have a significant number of people disagreeing with the above ?

To add some context to this discussion - it started out of a review of
IndiX - http://rohini.ncst.ernet.in/indix/ - an effort to support Indian
languages using XFree86. IndiX takes a server side font rendering approach.

	-Arun
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