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Re: [ft-devel] Contribution to freetype


From: Nikolay Sivov
Subject: Re: [ft-devel] Contribution to freetype
Date: 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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>     Werner
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