From 456564f377617c6b5c278cb8ac4eb3ae64d6aae6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kovid Goyal Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2021 18:31:18 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] Small text clarification for rendering strategy --- docs/faq.rst | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/faq.rst b/docs/faq.rst index a5e18a73c..a9f6ceab0 100644 --- a/docs/faq.rst +++ b/docs/faq.rst @@ -192,10 +192,10 @@ If you do want to cat unknown data, use ``cat -v``. kitty is not able to use my favorite font? --------------------------------------------- -|kitty| achieves its stellar performance by caching alpha masks of each rendered -character on the GPU, so that every character needs to be rendered only once. -This means it is a strictly character cell based display. As such it can use -only monospace fonts, since every cell in the grid has to be the same size. +|kitty| achieves its stellar performance by caching alpha masks of each +rendered character on the GPU, and rendering them all in parallel. This means +it is a strictly character cell based display. As such it can use only +monospace fonts, since every cell in the grid has to be the same size. Furthermore, it needs fonts to be freely resizable, so it does not support bitmapped fonts.