Re: [ft-devel] Contribution to freetype

[Werner LEMBERG]

>> 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.

Technically, they are not fonts, but practically they are.  It's not
much different to, say, a CFF that consists of a bunch of subfonts.


    Werner