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Xserver-spec: Update discussion of font library 

Signed-off-by: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
Reviewed-by: Jeremy Huddleston <jeremyhu@apple.com>
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Alan Coopersmith 2010-11-27 08:15:52 -08:00
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@ -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