FAQ change wrt FontForge

Francois Gouget fgouget at free.fr
Sun Nov 23 05:17:41 CST 2008


On Thu, 13 Nov 2008, Wine Wiki  wrote:
[...]
> - Unless you plan to work on the TrueType fonts you don't need 
> FontForge. If you do, then be aware that the FontForge packages from 
> Breezy and Dapper are a bit out of date. The fonts generated by most 
> versions of FontForge will not pass the gdi32/tests/fonts.c tests.
> + Be aware that the FontForge packages from Breezy and Dapper are a 
> bit out of date. The fonts generated by most versions of FontForge 
> will not pass the gdi32/tests/fonts.c tests.
[...]
> - Note that, unless you are tracking Git and know what you are doing, 
> you SHOULDN'T have valgrind. Also, unless you plan to work on the 
> TrueType fonts you don't need FontForge.
> + Note that, unless you are tracking Git and know what you are doing, 
> you SHOULDN'T have valgrind.
[...]
> - Unless you plan to work on the TrueType fonts you don't need FontForge.
[...]
> - * The following, but ''only'' if you plan to work on the TrueType 
> fonts, and can install them from ''testing'' - '''do not''' install 
> these from ''Sarge'':
> +  * '''Do not''' install these from ''Sarge'':
>     * fontforge/testing

I think these changes are wrong. As far as I know the TrueType fonts are 
checked into Git so one does not need to have FontForge to build Wine. 
Or has this changed? Or is FontForge needed to build another type of 
fonts?

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Francois Gouget <fgouget at free.fr>              http://fgouget.free.fr/
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