For the purpose of drawing characters from a secondary, substitution font, one must know whether one must rescale bbox to bbox, or X-height to X-height etc. Currently I use a very brain-damaged do-it-quickly scheme (only BMP matters so far):
my $nobaseline_blocks = <<EOB; # Do not need alignment on baseline; align on bounding box Controls 0000..001f Controls 007f..009f Devanagari — Myanmar 0900...109f Arrows 21d0-21ff Pieces etc 231c-2321 Pieces, terminal 239b-23bd extension 23d0-23d0 Control Pictures 2400..243F Enclosed, Box, Block 2460-259f Dingbats 2700..27BF Arrows+Braille 27F0..297F Symb+Arrows 2B00..2BFF Hangul Compatibility Jamo — Vai 3130..A63F Syloti Nagri — Hangul Jamo Extended-B A800..D7FF CJK Compatibility Ideographs F900..FAFF CJK Compatibility Forms FE30..FE4F EOB What do people use in “real life” applications? Thanks, Ilya P.S. Plug: this is used to create a «merged DejaVu + beautified-Unifont» font http://ilyaz.org/fonts _______________________________________________ Unicode mailing list [email protected] http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode
