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[PATCH] Update information about fonts

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: xfq.free <at> gmail.com, Kenichi Handa <handa <at> gnu.org>, 14993 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#14993: [PATCH] Update information about fonts
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 15:32:05 +1100

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Kenichi Handa <handa <at> gnu.org>
>> Cc: xfq.free <at> gmail.com, 14993 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 22:10:57 +0900
>> 
>> In article <83k3k6wx44.fsf <at> gnu.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
>> 
>> > Btw, if we are deprecating Intlfonts, should we keep ps-bdf.el?  And
>> > if we drop ps-bdf.el, can we add some ps-otf.el instead?  Perhaps
>> > Handa-san could comment on this.
>> 
>> I was working on ps-ttf.el several years ago, but couldn't
>> finish it because of lack of time, and that code didn't have
>> a facility of CTL (Complex Text Layouting).  Nowadays I
>> think we can utilize cairo to generate ps or pdf, but I'm
>> not sure I can find a time to work on it.
>
> In that case, perhaps it's too soon to deprecate Intlfonts, since
> there's no other way of printing non-ASCII characters with ps-print.

Has anything changed in this area now?  (It's two years later...)

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