Kris said: > I'm currently planning to replace the godawful > fontconfig XML configuration on with a Scheme-based lookup > system which may save my sanity, though. >
Please do so! I'v configured my current setup with wget, but this doesn't get the job done at all. > Admittedly, the newer auto-hinters do a decent job of this these days The freetype autohinter? http://freetype.sourceforge.net/autohinting/hinter.html#screenshots Perhaps this is outdated, but it looks horrible to me. Hinting patents have expired and any distribution should now be able to include the proper bytecode interpreter.