J. J. Young wrote:
>
> Or wrote
> >Another solution that would, however, cause Arachne to increase
> >in size, is to add afew more font sets below and above the current
> >"scale" of fonts.
>
> <snipped>
>
> Exactly!
>
> <snipped>
>
> But looking closely at the fonts (or even not very closely), italic
> was awful and the spacing between letters wasn't right etc., and I
> find it more tiring to read Arachne pages. The only solution seemed
> to be editing each character by hand, but I never did it. Maybe one day!
I find the use of individual font descriptions for each size odd, but maybe
there was a reason at one time.
Possibly it was considered faster to just look it up when required instead
of generating the required size from a single pattern of adequate detail.
Possibly it also helps to manually edit out the resizing defects that could
result from a simple re-sizing subroutine.
But then again, everyone else seems to be able to do it, and I think I could
write a fast resizing routine that produced acceptable characters at a much
bigger range of font sizes than we have now. It would just be a matter of
running the routine once every time a new size was encountered, and caching
the results in TEMP as Arachne does anyway.
With such a routine the size of Arachne would actually reduce a lot because
those fonts take a great deal of space. It would also be quite possible to
give users the option of either maintaining or scaling fonts when the screen
resolution changes. <G>
Good ideas Or, Jake.
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