Merge from emacs-23

[gnu-emacs] / admin / notes / font-backend

diff --git a/admin/notes/font-backend b/admin/notes/font-backend
index d35102d681e4ada0506020e6a7f8ccb3e95b0156..be35693fc6e35739e4f9704bd1bb2172841ac929 100644 (file)
--- a/admin/notes/font-backend
+++ b/admin/notes/font-backend
@@ -6,11 +6,6 @@ See the end of the file for license conditions.
 New font handling mechanism with font backend method
 ----------------------------------------------------
 
-The configure script, if invoked with "--enable-font-backend", checks
-if libraries freetype and fontconfig exist.  If they are both
-available, macro "USE_FONT_BACKEND" is defined in src/config.h.  In
-that case, the existence of Xft library is checked too.
-
 The new files are:
        font.h -- header providing font-backend related structures
                (most important ones are "struct font" and "struct
@@ -44,10 +39,6 @@ Fontconfig are also available on w32, what we need may be:
        ftw32font.c -- font-driver on w32 directly using FreeType fonts
                utilizing methods provided by ftfont.c.
 
-And, for those to work, macterm.c and macfns.c must be changed by the
-similar way as xterm.c and xfns.c (the parts "#ifdef USE_FONT_BACKEND"
-... "#endif" should be checked).
-
 It may be interesting if Emacs supports a frame buffer directly and
 has these font driver.
        ftfbfont.c -- font-driver on FB for FreeType fonts.