Around 14 o'clock on Aug 13, "James H. Cloos Jr." wrote:
> I'd like to see this designed to combine all of the dpi-pt_size > variations of a given face into a single ttf. (It may even be > a good idea to also collect the WIEGHT, SLANT, SETWIDTH and > ADD_STYLE variations into a ttc; this should be discussed.) That's a nice addition as well. I don't really care if we combine multiple faces into a single .ttc file; it's not all that common yet, but it would reduce the number of files we distribute. > The resultant ttfs should also, IMO, include sufficient hints so that > mkfontdir can generate fonts.dir entries from them exactly as it now > can from the bdf files. In fact, all of the properties from the bdf > files' STARTPROPERTIES section should be encoded into the ttf. I plan on eliminating the fonts.dir files at some point and having the X server use fontconfig. Placing sufficient information in the fonts and thence into fontconfig would eliminate the need for almost all of the current font architecture. > Exactly how the properties should be encoded is another topic in need > of discussion. A new table could be added (perhaps named something > like XF86, XFLD, XBDF or BDFP) to encode all of the props with > pointers to which bitmap they refer. That was my plan as well; I believe all of the properties can be tagged to the pixel size they refer to. > P.S. As a related sidenote, has anyone tried writing an xfs > on top of fontconfig/xft2/ft2? Once we port the current Xserver/fontserver 'font' library to fontconfig, we'll have done this for both applications. Keith Packard XFree86 Core Team HP Cambridge Research Lab _______________________________________________ Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
