Bug 30284

Summary: addition to X11 Fonts section of handbook
Product: Documentation Reporter: rsidd <rsidd>
Component: Books & ArticlesAssignee: freebsd-doc (Nobody) <doc>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   
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Description rsidd 2001-09-03 13:30:00 UTC 
	I came across this nugget on slashdot, on how to enable
	subpixel sampling on LCD displays under XFree86 4.x -- so
	I thought it merits a mention in the handbook.  Note, however,
	that the slashdot post mentioned that Microsoft has a
	patent on this technology (I seem to remember that's true), 
	which may be why XFree86 does not particularly advertise it; 
	while there is plenty of prior art and it should be possible to 
	overturn the patent, nobody wants to go to court... so I'm not 
	sure whether the handbook should in fact include this.  Here's a 
	patch anyway.
Comment 1 Murray Stokely freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-09-04 01:00:02 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Your update has been committed, thanks!  It may take up to 24 hours 
before this reaches the web site.  Any chance you can write up 
something about the other recent /. story on anti-aliased fonts with 
GNOME?