[tex-live] Comment on libfontconfig

Frank Küster frank at kuesterei.ch
Wed Oct 4 16:41:07 CEST 2006


"Nelson H. F. Beebe" <beebe at math.utah.edu> wrote:

> Before rushing off to adopt and use libfontconfig, please remember
> that it is not universally available on Unix systems.

So what's the alternative you propose?

> Given that there are scores of GNU/Linux distributions, there may well
> be others that fail to provide libfontconfig.

Well, KDE uses it, and I bet Gnome uses it, too.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)


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