From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Japanese Font
From: "rob pike" <rob@plan9.bell-labs.com>
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Date: Thu,  8 Feb 2001 22:41:43 -0500
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Yes, I understand that.  I was trying to tell you the way to do it.
It's like this, schematically:

	s = allocimage(0, 0, HUGE, height);
	x = 0;
	for(i in number of characters){
		c = allocmemimage(0, 0, c.width, height);
		convert bdf to character in c
		draw(s, Rect(x, 0, x+c.width, height), c, nil, ZP);
		fontchar[i] = {...., x, ...};
		x += c.width;
	}
	t = allocimage(0, 0, x, height);
	draw(t, t->r, s, nil, ZP);

Or you could calculate the subfont width before allocating
s by adding another loop.

-rob