From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: "rob pike, esq." MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [9fans] faces Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 10:20:22 -0700 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 29db0846-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 the need for multiple resolutions of faces disappeared with the last gnot. the facebase should be collapsed into a single resolution-independent hierarchy. the faces program can handle any resolution; just put all the resolutions in one directory and use .dict to choose which one to show. as for personal versions, i see two solutions. one is to use binding, which would be easier if the hierarchy were collapsed. the other is to use a pair of .dict files and search the personal one first. in the collapsed scheme, there is only one .dict file. faces could easily be modified to take an argument specifying a .dict file to use first, and fall to the official one if no match is found. finally, all the names in .dict are relative. easy change: make it understand absolute names, which would make personal .dict files easier to write. -rob