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Re: [pygame] road to 1.6

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Subject: Re: [pygame] road to 1.6
From: Anthony Baxter <anthony@interlink.com.au>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 16:06:00 +1000
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>>> "Mike C. Fletcher" wrote
> Oh, question, is Anthony's system-TTF-file-finding code available for 
> inclusion in a BSD-licensed project (OpenGLContext)?  I'd like to use an 
> already-available mechanism rather than have to roll my own for use with 
> PyGame and FontTools font-providers.

Sure, go for it.

One change I'd like to make before it goes into pygame proper is
to switch from XLFD-style names to Xft-style names. The latter suck
far less than the former.

http://keithp.com/~keithp/talks/xtc2001/paper/xft.html#sec-xft-name

Anthony.
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Anthony Baxter     <anthony@interlink.com.au>   
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

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