Around 22 o'clock on Nov 19, Brian Stell wrote:
> Not all apps know which characters will be needed when until after the > font is needed/loaded. That's why I'm trying to create an API that can represent fonts in a glyph-set independent fashion. Do you have any comments on whether my list-all-the-fonts method seems reasonable? Please understand that this list is strictly conceptual; the implementation could cull fonts in various ways to avoid overwhelming the application with useless fonts. That brings up another difficult issue though; I'd like to provide the application with as much information as possible in case it wants to try and present certain text in the same font. The obvious mechanism for culling fonts from this list would be to eliminate fonts which don't increase the Unicode coverage over the union of fonts matching the pattern more closely; this fails to present fonts which might contain just the set of glyphs needed for a particular document (or paragraph, or whatever unit the upper level software decides is important). [EMAIL PROTECTED] XFree86 Core Team SuSE, Inc. _______________________________________________ Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
