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From: rog@vitanuova.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] ttf2subf (again)
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 19:17:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1722437096d2b5c0615f6967a5b9e241@vitanuova.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01731cefa649f6fe524c9886640c4aea@orthanc.cc.titech.ac.jp>

> I kind of feel implement it as a file server
> sits on somewhere like /lib/font/bit/ttf.  When a
> certain font like /lib/font/bit/ttf/R.7.1 is requested
> to be open(2)ed and doesn't exist, the server creates
> it using ttf2subf and returns the resulted bit map font.

the question is how much information to embed in the path name...  and
what does one do about partial matching.  short names are desirable
(we don't want to end up with something that looks like X11 font
specs), but then again it might be nice to be able to specify "12pt
bold" without worrying about the exact typeface...



  reply	other threads:[~2003-08-13 18:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-13  1:12 YAMANASHI Takeshi
2003-08-13 18:17 ` rog [this message]
2003-08-13 21:13   ` matt
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-08-27  3:16 Joel Salomon
2003-08-15  3:03 YAMANASHI Takeshi
2003-08-12 16:13 andrey mirtchovski
2003-08-12 17:41 ` Charles Forsyth
2003-08-12 18:38 ` Latchesar Ionkov
2003-08-12 18:54   ` Chris Hollis-Locke
2003-08-12 19:14     ` Latchesar Ionkov
2003-08-13  9:29     ` Martin C.Atkins

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