>> 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.
Technically, they are not fonts, but practically they are. It's not
much different to, say, a CFF that consists of a bunch of subfonts.
Werner
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