>>>>> "jk" == "Joseph Koshy", "ks" == "Keyur Shroff"
jk> o An implementation is not allowed to place glyphs at
jk> anything other than the /precise/ positions in the request (i.e. no
jk> kerning).
ks> Will you please give us the pointers of these in the
ks> protocol specification?
The first glyph of the glyph list specified in the PolyText or
ImageText requests has to be drawn with its origin coinciding with the
[x,y] coordinate given in the request. This is specified in the
definition of these requests.
The origin for the next glyph is defined to be:
[x + character-width,y]
where "character-width" is a per-character metric. This information
is however tucked away in the definition QueryFont protocol request
[approx page 51 of the protocol specification].
There is another constraint on text rendering imposed by the core
protocol.
o PolyText glyph display is defined as a fill operation using the
current graphics context, with the glyph bits forming a mask. This
effectively precludes anti-aliased text. ImageText rendering is
also defined in terms of 2 colors, also precluding anti-aliased
display of text.
Regards,
Koshy
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