freetype: wording in bytecode variant unclear

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

The wording of the warning displayed by the bytecode variant could be improved. This came to me by email:

On Feb 22, 2009, at 14:19, David Magda wrote:

If the 'bytecode' variant of the FreeType MacPort is chose, the following text is displayed:

You may want not to compile a bytecode interpreter into the TrueType driver. Without this you will only compile the code necessary to load TrueType glyphs without hinting.

I do not understand what this paragraph is trying to tell me. Could it be reworded so that the text is "By enabling the bytecode interpreter, it will cause the library to ..." ? Or perhaps "By enabling the bytecode interpreter, you will be unable to ...".

The second sentence uses the word "without" twice, which makes it difficult to understand what is enabled and what is disabled.

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Milestone Port Bugs deleted

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

• r55399: Message rewritten. It now reads:

Warning: The +bytecode variant causes FreeType's TrueType driver to be compiled with a bytecode interpreter that produces better-looking output than the default auto-hinting method. However, the methods used by the bytecode interpreter are patented by Apple Inc. Only use this variant if you have purchased a license from Apple or live in a country where Apple's patents to this technology do not apply. For more information, please read: ​http://www.freetype.org/patents.html