On 3/18/2018 6:19 AM, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>
> The difficulty is not adding support for the VF format itself but to
> find a good API that is generic enough for other purposes, too. I'm
> thinking of handling files like Microsoft's
> `GlobalSerif.CompositeFont'. Apple and Android provide similar
> concepts. It's probably not the job of FreeType to digest such
> composite fonts by itself (you'll need an external XML interpreter);
> however, it would be very helpful if we have a foundation to
> provide easy support for such composite fonts.
Could you elaborate? I don't see how .CompositeFont files are related to
FreeType mission. They are not fonts, and have no font data, but only
define {range, locale} -> {family} mapping.
>
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> Werner
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