Re: [9fans] Re: Thai Chicken

[rog@vitanuova.com]

> Please, I'm not trying to make a row. I simply don't understand why this seemingly
> obvious solution, apparently has problems I don't understand! Or is the 'problem'
> simply that "no-one has got around to doing it yet" - which is fine!)

one "obvious" reason why this is a problem is that fonts don't
necessarily come in all sizes.  there's no point in my tiny 7 point
font dragging in chinese chars from a much larger font - either
they'll be truncated, or the tiny font will have a much larger height
than it should.

i guess that's an argument for on-demand rendering of scalable fonts,
but that's not a trivial problem, as chris found out...

i have to say i'd like to see a more standard convention for naming
fonts; i very rarely use other than the standard acme or rio fonts,
(although i'd sometimes like to) and the fact that fonts have no
consistent naming scheme doesn't really help.

just the act of grouping a load of consistent fonts in one place, as
chris did for charon, helps a lot:

	charon/(bold cw italic plain).(tiny small normal large vlarge).font

at least then i can remember where to find typefaces that more-or-less
go with one another, and have as large a coverage as is possible,
consistent with the font appearance.