From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OmEh4-0005lw-Mr for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 23:38:55 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C6EE5E081C; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 23:38:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (mail.ukfsn.org [77.75.108.10]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4567E081C for ; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 23:38:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3C38DEC0B for ; Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:38:11 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org ([192.168.54.25]) by localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id xjTwJoyabi-Y for ; Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:38:11 +0100 (BST) Received: from humphrey.ukfsn.org (unknown [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A5C4DEC06 for ; Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:38:11 +0100 (BST) From: Peter Humphrey Organization: at home To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I can RTFM, but can I understand it: re elog messages Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:38:10 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.35-gentoo-r1; KDE/4.4.5; x86_64; ; ) References: In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201008200038.10640.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> X-Archives-Salt: 78d54a66-2957-4cbf-b77f-56988910d813 X-Archives-Hash: a8fb823fe57f38e8b02d4c3e18cc4b4b On Thursday 19 August 2010 21:21:20 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > So I looked up "auto-hinter" in the flagedit(1) program. It says: > auto-hinter: Local Flag: Use the unpatented auto-hinter instead > of the (recommended) TrueType bytecode interpreter (media- > libs/freetype) > > The placement of the "(recommended)" is just a bit ambiguous. No, it isn't. You may be being confused by the unnecessary inclusion of brackets (parentheses if you're American); remove them and you see that the TrueType byte-code interpreter is recommended. Or, just consider the phrase "the recommended TrueType bytecode interpreter", with or without brackets. I can't see how that could be thought ambiguous. -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.