J.Pietschmann wrote: > Andreas L. Delmelle wrote: > >>Problem 2: The better solution is to eliminate the font-metrics file > >>completely, have the config point to the font file itself, and > >>read the font > >>file on-the-fly to get the metric information. > ... > > I like this idea even better... I always wondered why you first had to > > generate the metrics file > > This is in the archives. The point is that you can edit the metrics > files, and there are fonts out there which actually need this.
My recollection is, that in some cases anyway, the metrics file may be bad because our font-reading application is incomplete, which should be fixable. Even if the font file itself is the culprit, my knee-jerk reaction is that the best thing to do is to have the user edit it with font-editing software, and to address the problem at that level, rather than trying to have FOP work around it. I don't know of any other software that tries to allow the user to adapt the font the way are doing now. However, ... > Of course, we could have both. ... I have no big problem with this. Victor Mote --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
