Re: Inaccuracy in NEWS.28

[Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>]

>>>>> On Tue, 01 Mar 2022 21:22:12 +0800, Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> said:

    Po> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
    >> Please show a complete patch, it's hard to guess which text you'd like
    >> to replace with this.

    Po> Sure, thanks:

    Po> diff --git a/etc/NEWS.28 b/etc/NEWS.28
    Po> index 58c7c44a2b..84041d79c2 100644
    Po> --- a/etc/NEWS.28
    Po> +++ b/etc/NEWS.28
    Po> @@ -43,11 +43,10 @@ recommend examining any such warnings before you decide they are
    Po>  false.
 
    Po>  ** The Cairo graphics library is now used by default if present.
    Po> -'--with-cairo' is now the default, if the appropriate development files
    Po> -are found by 'configure'.  Note that building with Cairo means using
    Po> -Pango instead of libXFT for font support.  Since Pango 1.44 has
    Po> -removed support for bitmapped fonts, this may require you to adjust
    Po> -your font settings.
    Po> +'--with-cairo' is now the default, if the appropriate development
    Po> +files are found by 'configure'.  Building with Cairo is known to cause
    Po> +some problems with bitmap fonts.  This may require you to adjust your
    Po> +font settings, or to build with Xft support instead.
 
    Po>  Note also that 'FontBackend' settings in ".Xdefaults" or
    Po>  ".Xresources", or 'font-backend' frame parameter settings in your init

I think this is fine. Note we do call some Pango api's when using the
GTK font chooser, but I suspect you could never choose a bitmapped
font that way anyway.

Robert
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