Re: Status of multicolor fonts?

[Yuri Khan]

On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 4:20 AM, Clément Pit--Claudel
<address@hidden> wrote:
> This seems to be using Apple-specific APIs, however, so it probably does not 
> help much for other platforms. Still, it would be nice to have similar 
> features on GNU/Linux. The patches that allowed this to function on MacOS 
> were small; I wonder if it would be the same on other platforms.

If you want it on X11/GNU/Linux, you better start by convincing
FreeType developers and/or sending them a patch. I sure don’t want
each application implementing color fonts separately — if they get
implemented at all, I want to be able to disable them everywhere with
just one user setting.