On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 02:30:55PM -0800, [email protected] wrote: > On Mon, 4 Mar 2013 17:27:29 -0500 > Brent Yorgey <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 05:38:02PM -0800, [email protected] wrote: > > > On Sun, 3 Mar 2013 19:58:37 -0500 > > > Brent Yorgey <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Good access to fonts and font metrics is the kicker. Otherwise I'd > > > > say to switch to using diagrams as a backend, hence getting a whole > > > > bunch of actual backends for free. I would love to see development of > > > > some good Haskell font packages -- maybe it would even make a good > > > > GSoC project? Unfortunately I don't know enough about it to even know > > > > what would be involved, or how much work it would be. > > > > > > > > > > I assume that to use diagram the font package would have to be a vector > > > font system, or could bit-mapped fonts be used ? > > > > A vector font system would be ideal, as then you could go crazy > > turning glyphs into paths and doing whatever the heck you want with > > them using the diagrams framework. However, bit-mapped fonts could be > > used too (as long as there is a backend to support them), it would > > just be less useful. > > > > yes - seems to me that vector fonts are definitely the way to go. > > it seems like this problem has to already have a solution. maybe all that's > needed is a font importer which understands some, already established, vector > font representation. >
Well, there is the SVGFonts package: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/SVGFonts I don't have a good sense of how widely supported this representation is, or how easy it is to convert between it and other font representations. -Brent _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
