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Re: [ft-devel] Contribution to freetype
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Nikolay Sivov |
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Re: [ft-devel] Contribution to freetype |
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Sun, 18 Mar 2018 10:15:57 +0300 |
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On 3/18/2018 6:19 AM, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>
> The difficulty is not adding support for the VF format itself but to
> find a good API that is generic enough for other purposes, too. I'm
> thinking of handling files like Microsoft's
> `GlobalSerif.CompositeFont'. Apple and Android provide similar
> concepts. It's probably not the job of FreeType to digest such
> composite fonts by itself (you'll need an external XML interpreter);
> however, it would be very helpful if we have a foundation to
> provide easy support for such composite fonts.
Could you elaborate? I don't see how .CompositeFont files are related to
FreeType mission. They are not fonts, and have no font data, but only
define {range, locale} -> {family} mapping.
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- Re: [ft-devel] Contribution to freetype, (continued)
- Re: [ft-devel] Contribution to freetype, Parth Wazurkar, 2018/03/15
- Re: [ft-devel] Contribution to freetype, Ewald Hew, 2018/03/15
- Re: [ft-devel] Contribution to freetype, Parth Wazurkar, 2018/03/16
- Re: [ft-devel] Contribution to freetype, Parth Wazurkar, 2018/03/17
- Re: [ft-devel] Contribution to freetype, Werner LEMBERG, 2018/03/17
- Re: [ft-devel] Contribution to freetype, Parth Wazurkar, 2018/03/18
- Re: [ft-devel] Contribution to freetype, Werner LEMBERG, 2018/03/18
- Re: [ft-devel] Contribution to freetype, Parth Wazurkar, 2018/03/18
- Re: [ft-devel] Contribution to freetype, Parth Wazurkar, 2018/03/19
- Re: [ft-devel] Contribution to freetype, Parth Wazurkar, 2018/03/24
- Re: [ft-devel] Contribution to freetype,
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- Re: [ft-devel] Contribution to freetype, Werner LEMBERG, 2018/03/18
- Re: [ft-devel] Contribution to freetype, Nikolay Sivov, 2018/03/18
- Re: [ft-devel] Contribution to freetype, Werner LEMBERG, 2018/03/18
- Re: [ft-devel] Contribution to freetype, Nikolay Sivov, 2018/03/18
- Re: [ft-devel] Contribution to freetype, Werner LEMBERG, 2018/03/18
- Re: [ft-devel] Contribution to freetype, Nikolay Sivov, 2018/03/18
- Re: [ft-devel] Contribution to freetype, Werner LEMBERG, 2018/03/18
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