Hi Stef,

> I should say that I'm confused so my question may be idiot.
> Here it is: what's the status of the font rendering effort.
> Andy if I remember you worked on something and there was some
> discussion with sophiers.

The freetype / subpixel rendering stuff is on-going.
I use it all the time under windows, and it works well.

There are some linux plugins available, but untested. The problem with these
plugins is that they were rather "cobbled together". I compiled the freetype
library on windows, copied it to linux, and compiled and linked the plugin from
a Terminal shell; it works, but I can't remember exactly what I did to get it
built :(

I have already shared these plugins with one interested party, and I am hoping
they will be able to help with getting makefiles etc. set up on linux for
building .

If anyone else wants to do download and experiment with this on Linux, then here
are the links...

You can download them from here...
http://www.zen61439.zen.co.uk/ft%20linux%20plugins/

This contains these two files...
http://www.zen61439.zen.co.uk/ft%20linux%20plugins/BitBltPlugin
http://www.zen61439.zen.co.uk/ft%20linux%20plugins/FT2Plugin

You can use the freetype image etc. from here...

http://www.zen61439.zen.co.uk/Squeak3.9g-7054_FreeType.zip

The packages also load ok into later versions of squeak, e.g. the final release
of 3.9.
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If anyone is interested in building plugins for the Mac, then that would be
great. I'd build them myself if Santa had given me a Mac for Christmas, but I
got socks instead :(

I am going to keep chugging away at this when I have both the time, and
inclination. But, I must admit that, at the moment, I don't have a clear roadmap
or timescale.

Cheers,
Andy