Re: [9fans] yet another font package converted to plan9

[andrey mirtchovski <mirtchov@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>]

On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Jack Johnson wrote:

> If someone were to tackle some facility for right-to-left text, would it
> make sense to try to do top-to-bottom at the same time (i.e. arbitrary
> text orientation?), or do you think it would be better to have a system
> that was entirely one orientation or another?
>

Rob Pike may possibly disagree, but since all text displayed in Plan 9 is
(arguably) the same as any other image you see on the screen, switching from
left-to-right to tfel-ot-thgir _should_ be as simple as changing Dx() to
-Dx().

top to bottom would be: Dy() = height + C; Dx() = 0; :)

related topic: I've heard 'freetype' mentioned on this list before.
does Charles Forsyth's port allow for antialiased fonts text?

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=freetype+group:comp.os.plan9&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&group=comp.os.plan9&selm=ec836bd9.0206161203.634832f0%40posting.google.com&rnum=1

I know it's going to be in Inferno R4, those fonts aren't going to be
available for Plan 9? There are GPL TTFs now, can we use those?

andrey