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  X TrueType Server Version 1.3 [Aoi MATSUBARA Release 3]

  README First

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1. WHAT IS X-TrueType Server?
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 X-TrueType Server, or X-TT in short(*1), enables X server to use
 TrueType fonts by incorporating a free TrueType rasterizer
 FreeType(*2).  You can get the newest version of X-TT from
 "http://X-TT.dsl.gr.jp/".


 1.1 Features
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  X-TT has the following features:

   - From the X client side's view, the interface to the font is not
      changed, since the additional features by X-TT is hidden in X
      Server. Hence there is absolutely no need for recompilation of
      any client to take advantage of X-TT.
   - Rasterization can be done either by X server itself or by X font
      server.
   - By using TTCap description, support for font transformations,
     such as slanting, adjusting glyph width, pseudo-bolding, etc.
   - It can be specified whether the glyphs be proportional or fixed
      width.
   - Support for TrueType Collection fonts.
   - Support for the following character sets:
     * For Western languages
        ASCII
        Any ISO8859 (part 1-10, and 15)
        Any KOI8
     * For Chinese
        Big5
        Big5ETen
        GB2312
     * For Korean
        KSC5601-0
        KSC5601-1 (EUC encoding)
        KSC5601Wansung
        KSC5601Johab
     * For Japanese
        JISX0201 (ANK)
        JISX0208 (JIS Level 1 and Level 2 Kanji)
        JISX0212 (JIS Auxiliary Kanji)
     * For Vietnamese
        VISCII
        TCVN
     * For Thai
        TIS620.2533 (ISO8859-11)
     * armenian (*-armscii-8, standard armenian encoding)
     * laotian (*-ibm-cp1133 and *-mulelao-1)
     * some DOS and Windows encodings (*-ibm-cp347, *-ibm-cp850, useful for
	dosemu users; *-microsoft-cp1252 also aliased 
	as *-microsoft-fontspecific, which is very useful, as most fonts
	don't use proper unicode values, but claim themselves to be in
	cp1252 encoding (it is the default Windows encoding))
     * arabic (arabic font encoding is a mess; ther is no standardization at
	all, I added some of the most used font encodings,
	*-mulearabic-{0,1,2} as used by MULE, *-microsoft-cp1256 as
	used by Windows, *-xaterm-fontspecific the specific encoding
	used by the arabic xterm 'xaterm', *-asmo-449 a standard
	used on some arabic countries, and *-iso8859-6_8 and
	*-iso8859-6_16 (the so called iso-8859-6-8 and iso-8859-6-16
	font encodings; have you a better idea for the X11 font naming ?)
	used by the Arabic Xmosaic web browser.
     * For Unified Character Set
        Unicode (X clients can use it)
   - Server library libfont can be built as a shared library.
   - Because charset conversion codes is made as dynamic loadable
     modules, the users can use the required encodings on demand,
     and there are no worry that the codes of needless encodings
     waste the memory.
   - Since Ver1.1pl01, the fonts containing the huge number of glyphs
     can be used as proportional font with practical response by specifying
     the `vl' option to use `Very Lazy Font Metrics Calculation Method'.


  1.2 Supported operating systems
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   Because current release of X-TT is provided as patches for XFree86,
   X-TT is available on all the systems where XFree86 and FreeType are
   supported.  Even for the user of a system where XFree86 is not
   supported, or for the user of a X server other than XFree86, X font
   server with X-TT features is still available.

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(*1) NOT `xtt' nor `Xtt' BUT `X-TT'.
     And, you can also use `Aoi' as the other name of X-TT.
(*2) http://www.freetype.org/

$Id: 00README.mix,v 1.4 1999/10/08 03:17:09 tshiozak Exp $
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