From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] P9P font server
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 09:15:08 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54eaf38892917e1c358d5f6328c92450@mikro> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1cc6a3781f6a0e77219df51ead5c665e@proxima.alt.za>
> that has been bugging me for a long time: avoiding the time consuming
> repeated installation of Plan 9 fonts. Specifically, p9p itself and
> local instances of 9vx could be smaller and the installation (and
> download, in most cases) would be quicker.
>
> The question then becomes whether fontsrv could be "ported" to Plan 9
> together with the supporting facilities (openfont(2) is my guess)? I
> certainly would be willing to give such port a try, if I can be
> convinced that it is not beyond my ability.
this won't necessarly save disk space:
; du */cyberbit*
12283 bit/cyberbit
13041 ttf/cyberbit.ttf
personally, i like the simplicity of plan 9's approach. a bigger issue
for me is plan 9's fixed string height: “” looks bad.
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-12 14:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-12 11:45 lucio
2013-12-12 14:15 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2013-12-12 14:39 ` lucio
2013-12-12 15:01 ` andrey mirtchovski
2013-12-12 15:32 ` lucio
2013-12-13 17:26 ` Friedrich Psiorz
2013-12-14 11:23 ` Pavel Zholkover
2013-12-14 13:11 ` Friedrich Psiorz
2013-12-14 13:13 ` erik quanstrom
2013-12-14 17:20 ` Friedrich Psiorz
2013-12-14 17:40 ` andrey mirtchovski
2013-12-14 18:16 ` Friedrich Psiorz
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