Re: Debian-JP discussions; lets wrap this up

[ISHIKAWA Mutsumi <ishikawa@linux.or.jp>]

 Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org>
   Subject: Re: Debian-JP discussions; lets wrap this up
   Message-ID: <[🔎] ytthfldi7mh.fsf@gilgamesh.cse.ucsc.edu>

>>     Ryuichi>  (e.g. For Japanese-users, True-Type supported X is very
>>     Ryuichi> very Important, (actually, Ishikawa-san maintained X-TT
>>     Ryuichi> supported in Debian-JP).  I know that Ishikawa-san
>>     Ryuichi> submited BTS @org to merge X-TT, but the package
>>     Ryuichi> maintainer does not merge it at the presense.)  For
>>     Ryuichi> Japanese this feature (enable multi-byte) is the top of
>>     Ryuichi> the stack, I think. But non-multibyte users does not feel
>>     Ryuichi> so.
>> 
>> The problem with X-TT was that it failed to compile on 64-bit platforms,
>> like Alpha and UltraSPARC.
>> 
>> Has this been fixed?

 No, this is not X-TT problem. It is xfsft's problem.

 There is two major implemantation to support TruType font on X.
 These are X-TT and xfsft.
 (These are already included in XFree86 3.9.15)

 I have already made patches and build X-TT enabled packages based on
xfree86_3.3.4-1. These are only for test. 

 These packages are compiled on i386 and Alpha plathome.
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 If you want to test this, please add apt line bellow:

 deb http://www.debian.or.jp/~ishikawa unstable main
 deb-src http://www.debian.or.jp/~ishikawa unstable main

 And patches for xfree86_3.3.4-1 can get from bellow:

 http://www.debian.or.jp/~ishikawa/dists/unstable/main/patches/

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Fri Sep  3 02:08:16 JST 1999
  ISHIKAWA Mutsumi <ishikawa@linux.or.jp>
      a Exective Director of Japan Linux Association
                                            <ishikawa@linux.or.jp>
      a member of Debian project            <ishikawa@debian.org>
      a member of Debian JP project         <ishikawa@debian.or.jp>
      a member of X-TrueType project (TrueType fonts support for X)