Re: [dev] [st] Need help implementing combining characters

2013-04-22 Thread Alexander Sedov
Okay, so the rendering is expectedly nearly as before. The real problem we have here is that most TrueType monospace font designers do not care about combining characters, as opposed to X font designers. (Saying about which, X font support in st is now HORRIBLY broken for me for some arcane

Re: [dev] [st] Need help implementing combining characters

2013-04-22 Thread Alexander Sedov
2013/4/22 Alexander Sedov alex0pla...@gmail.com: URxvt uses another approach that can be summarized as do Xft work (by looking throughout URxvt code base, one understands that they are really tired of this shit; transparency support in Xft, for example, is yet another wonder, and we're lucky

Re: [dev] [st] Need help implementing combining characters

2013-04-21 Thread Random832
On 04/21/2013 12:45 PM, Carlos Torres wrote: Maybe send out what you have and others can better grok what you intend, and see how it may fit? I could do that, but I haven't actually modified the drawing code substantially yet, except to include the combining characters themselves in the

Re: [dev] [st] Need help implementing combining characters

2013-04-21 Thread Aurélien Aptel
On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 7:02 PM, Random832 random...@fastmail.us wrote: I'm also having drawing issues with double-width characters that I don't know how to fix, so maybe it would be best if I just send what I have. Should I send it in the form of a patch or just my st.c? Send what is the most