On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 8:25 PM, m...@apollinemike.com
<m...@apollinemike.com> wrote:
> On Feb 26, 2012, at 7:37 PM, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>> AFAIK, Pango returns a list of glyph indices and coordinates to
>> position glyphs.  It's straightforward to feed those indices directly
>> into FreeType's `FT_Load_Glyph' function which is able to return an
>> `FT_Outline' structure holding the glyph's outline.
>
> This is great Werner - thank you!  I just checked out FT_Outline.  It's
> really straightforward, which is great.

Wonderful!

> Joe - this likely means that the build system work you were thinking about
> doing w/ glyph outlines is no longer necessary and that I can scrap all of
> the .scm stuff I wrote and replace it with calls to this.  I'll have time
> Wednesday morning to check this out.

I can't wait!  That's incredible!

cheers,
Janek

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