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 1OmLug-0000dp-Br for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 20 Aug 2010 07:21:18 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6107BE094B; Fri, 20 Aug 2010 07:20:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yx0-f181.google.com (mail-yx0-f181.google.com [209.85.213.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 449FCE094E for ; Fri, 20 Aug 2010 07:20:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxh35 with SMTP id 35so1626726yxh.40 for ; Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:20:17 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=JsCEozpyP1i1Hec49re0fHopKaZW8kVKP9T4zGlbjWI=; b=A4RWMj3q/+W67MmJSnVmGmNuG0wz9WrfH/4oN8ZuqyXAO2DAEcXUAgbXrJP+FktUe4 j49FikpkngGpD0KrHK6J2kvSScxvzPLGHiDpM0N9KhlZORLIObMnJAHKMBqGHjyh97yj 6Fm8TgW8swB0xjNLCbu4FjjxBcT+Pk3qhwdjk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=wnUsuUMSp0Ker4AfAJ0KtTR/KDpmrLeMX7Z6o6c1knMAG+1oCMVASJGgcL4StcxwBi 3KI/PB7tJOWnPoutOwZS0lGT3amSPPuLuARhPovk+pLygIggIG3Yl+ahhDHXNztx71kj maGi8h2y5T837PPNWli+HArTU2HfePeZMGTaE= Received: by 10.101.145.24 with SMTP id x24mr1167923ann.37.1282288816694; Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:20:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (adsl-0-123-240.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.123.240]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id w6sm3991287anb.23.2010.08.20.00.20.14 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:20:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C6E2CA9.9080309@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 02:20:09 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.11) Gecko/20100801 Gentoo/2.0.6 SeaMonkey/2.0.6 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I can RTFM, but can I understand it: re elog messages References: <201008200038.10640.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> In-Reply-To: <201008200038.10640.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 042c8067-aa40-436d-bed7-e803fa639966 X-Archives-Hash: 3dee93261c04ac05c28b662e01f44179 Peter Humphrey wrote: > 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. > > Well Peter is not alone. I saw that a week or so ago and I couldn't figure out what the heck any of it meant. Sort of reminds me of what euse -i gives me, Greek or may as well be anyway. Most of them doesn't make much sense unless you already know what they are, then you have no need to look. I usually go to the forums and search around to see what things mean. I just forgot to do that in this case. So, all that said, what the heck are we supposed to change here? Dale :-) :-)