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  X TrueType Server Version 1.4.2 [Charles's Wain]

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  (C)2003 After X-TT Project  All rights reserved.
                          Time-stamp: <2003-10-15 18:09:29 cyamauch>
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1. WHAT IS X-TrueType Server?
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 X-TrueType Server, or X-TT in short, enables X servers to use
 TrueType fonts by incorporating a free TrueType rasterizer
 library FreeType(*1).  You can download the newest version of X-TT from
 "http://x-tt.sourceforge.jp/".


 1.1 Features
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  X-TT has the following features:

   - The font interface has not changed on the X client side; 
      the additional features by X-TT is hidden within the X
      Server. Hence there is no need to recompile
      the client to take advantage of X-TT.
   - TTCap description allows for font transformations, 
      such as italicizing, adjusting glyph width, and double-strike 
      boldfacing.
   - It can also specify both proportional and fixed glyph
      width.
   - It supports TrueType Collection fonts.
   - It supports the following character sets:
     * For Western languages
        ASCII
        Any ISO8859 (part 1-11,13,14 and 15)
        Any KOI8
     * For Chinese
        Big5
        Big5HKSCS
        GB2312
	GB18030
     * For Korean
        KSC5601-0
        KSC5601-1 (EUC encoding)
        KSC5601Wansung
        KSC5601Johab (KSC5601-3)
     * For Japanese
        JISX0201 (ANK)
        JISX0208 (JIS Level 1 and Level 2 Kanji)
        JISX0212 (JIS Auxiliary Kanji)
     * For Vietnamese
        VISCII
        TCVN
     * For Thai
        TIS620.2533 (ISO8859-11)
     * armenian (*-armscii-8, standard armenian encoding)
     * laotian (*-ibm-cp1133 and *-mulelao-1)
     * some DOS and Windows encodings (*-ibm-cp347, *-ibm-cp850, useful for
	dosemu users; *-microsoft-cp1252 also aliased 
	as *-microsoft-fontspecific, which is very useful, as most fonts
	don't use proper unicode values, but claim themselves to be in
	cp1252 encoding (it is the default Windows encoding))
     * arabic (arabic font encoding is a mess; ther is no standardization at
	all, I added some of the most used font encodings,
	*-mulearabic-{0,1,2} as used by MULE, *-microsoft-cp1256 as
	used by Windows, *-xaterm-fontspecific the specific encoding
	used by the arabic xterm 'xaterm', *-isiri-3342, *-iransystem-0,
	*-urdunaqsh-0, *-asmo-449 a standard used on some arabic countries, 
	and *-iso8859-6_8 and *-iso8859-6_16 (the so called iso-8859-6-8 
	and iso-8859-6-16 font encodings; have you a better idea for the X11
	font naming ?) used by the Arabic Xmosaic web browser.
     * For Unified Character Set
        Unicode (usable from X clients)
   - Server library libfont can be built as a shared library.
   - Because charset conversion codes are made as dynamic loadable
     modules, the users can use the required encodings on demand,
     and unused encodings would not take up extra memory space.
   - Since Ver1.1pl01, fonts containing a large number of glyphs
     can be used as a proportional font reasonably fast, by specifying
     the `vl' option that uses the `Very Lazy Font Metrics Calculation Method'.
   - New options for TTCap in X-TT 1.4, `fc' and `fm': they enable the 
     *extremely* fast loading of big Japanese, GB18030 or unicode fonts with 
     "-p-" in the XLFD. 


  1.2 Supported operating systems
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   Because the current release of X-TT is provided as patches for XFree86,
   X-TT is available on all the systems where XFree86 and FreeType are
   supported.

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(*1) http://www.freetype.org/

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