[sword-devel] Greek texts

Paul Gear sword-devel@crosswire.org
Wed, 19 Jul 2000 06:49:30 +1000


Brook Humphrey wrote:
> 
> ...
> PG> Easy on Windows - just provide a different font.  Hard on Linux - what
> PG> other font are you going to use?  How are you going to ensure that it's
> PG> present on everyone's Linux box?  Are you going to force frontend
> PG> developers to use FreeType and a particular TTF, or just let them work
> PG> it out themselves?  Are you going to make everyone use xfsft?  What
> PG> about other platforms?
> 
> Mandrake is easy with fonts also at least just as easy as windows. it
> includes a utility called drakfont that will even find ttf fonts on
> your window partition and use them.

Well, one version of Linux down, 17 to go...  :-)

Paul
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