Subject: XF4 + FreeType2
To: None <tech-x11@netbsd.org>
From: Johnny C. Lam <lamj@stat.cmu.edu>
List: tech-x11
Date: 01/19/2001 10:08:43
Hi,

	XFree86-4.0.x (XF4) supports TrueType fonts in libXft using
FreeType2, which is bundled with the XF4 sources in
xfree/xc/extras/freetype2.  It would be good if our default X installation
had support for TrueType fonts, so I think we should build and distribute
libfreetype.so in /usr/X11R6/lib, much as libGL.so and libXpm.so are
currently built and distributed in /usr/X11R6/lib.

	Opinions?

     -- Johnny C. Lam <lamj@stat.cmu.edu>
        Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University
        http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~lamj/