Re: [tlug] Ghostscript hell

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

>>>>> "Matt" == Matt Gushee <mgushee@example.com> writes:

    Matt> After all, why bother including XTT at all if it's a
    Matt> crippled version that won't render Japanese fonts?

Politics, what did you think?  The XTT code was not portable (partly
because undocumented, at least in a Western language) to XFree86 4.x,
Japanese TT font file formats are not properly documented (are we
surprised?), and the XTT people were unwilling to make any effort to
do the port themselves without a promise it would be included as XTT
and not as part of the FreeType stuff.

I was pretty unimpressed with XTT.  It worked, yes, but it was a Rube
Goldberg rig.

The Fleetwood Mac song was "Go Your Own Way," of course.

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