On 7/22/20, Russ Cox wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 7:22 PM Anthony Martin wrote:
>
>> Russ, what did you do to that poor little Acme?! ☺
>>
>> Did you take the less daunting route using
>>
>> - a combined font file with shapes for normal, italic, bold, etc. and
>> - a filter to offset runes
I see, yes. Well, that's not too terrible.
-rob
On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 1:40 PM wrote:
> > I don't understand that. Acme knows the characters' location or it
> couldn't
> > draw them. Are you sure it's not just the frame library's lousy handling
> of
> > italic fonts?
>
> Unless I'm
> I don't understand that. Acme knows the characters' location or it couldn't
> draw them. Are you sure it's not just the frame library's lousy handling of
> italic fonts?
Unless I'm misunderstanding how this works, ',' (0x2c) gets mangled
to something like 0x10002c.
So, acme knows the location,
>
> *You can tell because when I double-click on the modified text acme
> doesn't know where the word boundaries are and ends up highlighting across
> punctuation that it normally wouldn't.*
I don't understand that. Acme knows the characters' location or it couldn't
draw them. Are you sure it's
