[PATCH 7/7] Xserver-spec: Update discussion of font library

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Sun Nov 28 00:00:31 PST 2010


Signed-off-by: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com>
---
 doc/xml/Xserver-spec.xml |   10 ++++++----
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/xml/Xserver-spec.xml b/doc/xml/Xserver-spec.xml
index 391ecb9..a2aec2f 100644
--- a/doc/xml/Xserver-spec.xml
+++ b/doc/xml/Xserver-spec.xml
@@ -1182,7 +1182,8 @@ are requests in that client's input queue.
   <title>Font Support</title>
 <para>
 In the sample server, fonts are encoded in disk files or fetched from the
-font server.
+font server.   The two fonts required by the server, <quote>fixed</quote>
+and <quote>cursor</quote> are commonly compiled into the font library.
 For disk fonts, there is one file per font, with a file name like
 "fixed.pcf".  Font server fonts are read over the network using the
 X Font Server Protocol.  The disk directories containing disk fonts and
@@ -1196,9 +1197,10 @@ appropriate code in the Font Library, you will automatically export fonts in
 that format both through the X server and the Font server.
 </para>
 <para>
-With the incorporation of font-server based fonts and the Speedo donation
-from Bitstream, the font interfaces have been moved into a separate
-library, now called the Font Library (../fonts/lib).  These routines are
+The code for processing fonts in different formats, as well as handling the
+metadata files for them on disk (such as <filename>fonts.dir</filename>) is
+located in the libXfont library, which is provided as a separately compiled
+module.  These routines are
 shared between the X server and the Font server, so instead of this document
 specifying what you must implement, simply refer to the font
 library interface specification for the details.  All of the interface code to the Font
-- 
1.7.3.2



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