[ANNOUNCE] fslsfonts 1.0.6

[Dave Howorth]

On Sat, 10 Sep 2022 13:44:45 -0700
Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> wrote:

[snip]
> As for why the man pages don't explain the difference, like most
> things there is no real reason beyond "because no one has yet added an
> explanation" - this is a nearly 30 year old distinction, and many of
> those involved back then aren't here to ask now, but they probably
> knew the difference themselves and didn't think about explaining it
> to others.
> 
> But since you've pointed it out, we can try to do better now:
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/fslsfonts/-/merge_requests/8/diffs
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/xlsfonts/-/merge_requests/5/diffs

[snip]

> There is no xft-ls-fonts - the rough equivalent there would be
> fc-list, since xft bridges the fontconfig font system into X11, as
> somewhat described in:
> https://www.x.org/releases/current/doc/xorg-docs/fonts/fonts.html

Thanks for all that. I think it helps to clarify things - a lot more
than I expected TBH :)

Cheers, Dave