Re: [9fans] How to writesubfont() for Memsubfont type?

Re: [9fans] How to writesubfont() for Memsubfont type?

[Skip Tavakkolian]

>> Can't find a writememsubfont(). Is it obvious?
>
> That's a tricky question.   What's obvious to one person may be
> mysterious to another.  But I think the implementation will be
> to take writesubfont and s/Subfont/Memsubfont/g.

Thanks.  I was curious because other than this function there seemed
to be parity between Memimage and Image operations.  Truth be told,
I'm a novice when it comes to graphics.  the last graphics system I
attempted to understand and use was the 630.  Interestingly, a Bush was
in the Whitehouse, Sadam was in Baghdad and the economy was bad.

>
> Don't forget that you still need to write the image; the writesubfont
> routine only writes the character width data.  A subfont file comprises
> the width data followed by an image, written the usual way.

Manual says wirtesubfont() should be preceded by writeimage(). correct?

>
> Why do you need this?

Writing a BDF to Subfont converter.

Re: [9fans] How to writesubfont() for Memsubfont type?

[Skip Tavakkolian]

Thanks. I really should look at the code (the beauty of opensource).
This is the path I'm taking now.

How did I miss ttf2subf? Where do I get it?

> if you're just building subfonts to write to a file, you can fill in
> a Subfont instead of a Memsubfont and use writesubfont instead,
> since the latter doesn't need the draw subsystem (it just writes
> a representation to a file using write).
>
> that's what i did for my Freetype ttf2subf program.

Re: [9fans] How to writesubfont() for Memsubfont type?

[C H Forsyth]

if you're just building subfonts to write to a file, you can fill in
a Subfont instead of a Memsubfont and use writesubfont instead,
since the latter doesn't need the draw subsystem (it just writes
a representation to a file using write).

that's what i did for my Freetype ttf2subf program.

Re: [9fans] How to writesubfont() for Memsubfont type?

[rob pike, esq.]

> Manual says wirtesubfont() should be preceded by writeimage(). correct?

Correct.  The manual is more reliable than my memory.

-rob

Re: [9fans] How to writesubfont() for Memsubfont type?

[Skip Tavakkolian]

>> Can't find a writememsubfont(). Is it obvious?
>
> That's a tricky question.   What's obvious to one person may be
> mysterious to another.  But I think the implementation will be
> to take writesubfont and s/Subfont/Memsubfont/g.

Thanks.  I was curious because other than this function there seemed
to be parity between Memimage and Image operations.  Truth be told,
I'm a novice when it comes to graphics.  the last graphics system I
attempted to understand and use was the 630.  Interestingly, a Bush was
in the Whitehouse, Sadam was in Baghdad and the economy was bad.

>
> Don't forget that you still need to write the image; the writesubfont
> routine only writes the character width data.  A subfont file comprises
> the width data followed by an image, written the usual way.

Manual says wirtesubfont() should be preceded by writeimage(). correct?

>
> Why do you need this?

Writing a BDF to Subfont converter.

Re: [9fans] How to writesubfont() for Memsubfont type?

[rob pike, esq.]

> Can't find a writememsubfont(). Is it obvious?

That's a tricky question.   What's obvious to one person may be
mysterious to another.  But I think the implementation will be
to take writesubfont and s/Subfont/Memsubfont/g.

Don't forget that you still need to write the image; the writesubfont
routine only writes the character width data.  A subfont file comprises
the width data followed by an image, written the usual way.

Why do you need this?

-rob

[9fans] How to writesubfont() for Memsubfont type?

[Skip Tavakkolian]

Can't find a writememsubfont(). Is it obvious?