Chisato Yamauchi writes: > From: Egbert Eich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Fonts] After-XTT's extension of the encoding field. > Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 18:11:21 +0200 > > > This extension came from the After-XTT people from Japan. > > I thought of this extension from a argument with > Jamus Su. It seems that there were some discussion on > some mail lists of supporting non BMP glyphs. > For example, > > http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/2000-12/index.html > Re: X font aliases and UTF-8 xterm, Ienup Sung > Re: X font aliases and UTF-8 xterm, Robert Brady > Re: X font aliases and UTF-8 xterm, Roman Czyborra > > But I like no proposals in them which cause confusion obviously. > Therefore I think that we actually cannot but extend Encoding Field. > The extension of X-TT 1.4 does not have any problems about compatibility, > so I implemented this extention to X-TT without many discussion. > Even if this extension is not accepted, there is no necessity of > deleting this extension. > > In Japan, there are the "GT fonts" which includes 66773 glyphs. > To use "GT fonts", I implemented this extention. It is also one of > the reasons. I use them like: > > gt200001.ttf -gt-mincho-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-gt.2000-0.1 > gt200002.ttf -gt-mincho-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-gt.2000-0.2 > gt200003.ttf -gt-mincho-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-gt.2000-0.3 > : > : > > The code range of "gt" is the same of that of "jisx0208". >
OK, so you are not selecting different ranges but different files? Is it a standard procedure to distribute one font accross several files or was the single file just split into separate ones just to avoid blowing up the XFontStruct? Two further issues: 1. would it be possible to convert xtt to use freetype2 instead of freetype1? This would allow us to remove the freetype1 sources from the tree. 2. it is planned to extend the freetype module to meet all core font requirements, also is planned to convert all bitmapped fonts to bitmapped truetype fonts. This would to some extend collide with the xtt renderer: whichever renderer is loaded first would be chosen to render all available formats it can handle. Which features does xtt offer which the freetype module is lacking of? Egbert. _______________________________________________ Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
