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authorEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2019-06-01 15:13:27 +0300
committerEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2019-06-01 15:13:27 +0300
commitabb9c62e1dbb3abaf1ac3043b1ad764c0ed5eaab (patch)
treeda3230ad704a79dd6021d887d3dca81ac60e230d
parentbb999339ce7a6d18e9c7dc4f40bfae6f38d9479e (diff)
downloademacs-abb9c62e1dbb3abaf1ac3043b1ad764c0ed5eaab.tar.gz
; * etc/NEWS: Reflect changes in font backend loading.
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@@ -35,7 +35,11 @@ HarfBuzz text shaping engine. It is on by default; use './configure
--without-harfbuzz' to build without it. The HarfBuzz text shaping is
available via new font backend drivers 'xfthb' and 'ftcrhb' for Xft
and Cairo drawings, respectively, and via the 'harfbuzz' backend on
-MS-Windows.
+MS-Windows. The Harfbuzz text shaping is preferred to the previously
+supported ones, so the font backends that use older shaping engines
+(FLT on GNU and Unix systems and Uniscribe on MS-Windows) are not
+enabled by default; they can be enabled via the 'font-backend' frame
+parameter or via X resources.
** The new configure option '--with-json' adds support for JSON using
the Jansson library. It is on by default; use './configure