Re: Pterodactyl Gnus v0.9 is released

[Andrew J Cosgriff <ajc@bing.wattle.id.au>]

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>>>>> "Kai" == Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann@amaunet.cs.uni-dortmund.de> writes:

>>>>> On 01 Sep 1998, Andrew J Cosgriff said:
ajc> Yep, very nice.  Now all I need to do is make TrueType fonts
ajc> work for it so it doesn't pick a different font for the
ajc> non-english characters, right in the middle of a word - I've
ajc> been using xfstt which does only one encoding type at a time :(

Kai> I'm happy with the GNU intlfonts package.  Some no-frills fonts, but
Kai> beautiful in their simplicity.

Sure, they work ok, but it's aesthetically displeasing to have
font-changes in the middle of a word like so :


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I notice on slashdot.org that there's a third TrueType font server
now...

I'll just have to try and make xfsft work for me some time, I guess.
Unless Mr xfstt can make it serve multiple encodings at once...

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Andrew J Cosgriff <ajc@bing.wattle.id.au> exterminate all rational thought !
                      sand detox polaroid zodiac darkness

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