[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: [ft-devel] Contribution to freetype
From: |
Werner LEMBERG |
Subject: |
Re: [ft-devel] Contribution to freetype |
Date: |
Sun, 18 Mar 2018 10:05:57 +0100 (CET) |
> Higher level would make use of ranges/language mapping for fallback.
> DirectWrite fallback is modeled very close if not identical to how
> this data is defined in .compositefont xml format. When using
> DirectWrite layout API, application can rely on implicit fonts being
> selected for different script ranges, and you can set specific
> language per range to get more accurate results. Newer versions
> allow user-defined fallback data, and API-wise it's very close to
> what those files provide.
If I understand you correctly, an application that uses DirectWrite
doesn't need `.compositeFont' files at all, right? What happens with
applications that don't use DirectWrite? AFAIK, Windows offers
composite fonts in its font selection menu like normal fonts...
> You can certainly parse and discard information irrelevant to
> freetype, but that will create ambiguity because same script ranges
> could be mapped to different fonts, and only differ in language.
We are miscommunicating, I think. I talk about taking a
`.compositeFont' file and use it as a font. You are talking about
configurability of `.compositeFont' files, effectively overriding its
contents.
Werner
- Re: [ft-devel] Contribution to freetype, (continued)
- 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, 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 <=
- Re: [ft-devel] Contribution to freetype, Nikolay Sivov, 2018/03/18
- Re: [ft-devel] Contribution to freetype, Werner LEMBERG, 2018/03/18
- Message not available
- Re: [ft-devel] Contribution to freetype, suzuki toshiya, 2018/03/18
- Re: [ft-devel] Contribution to freetype, Werner LEMBERG, 2018/03/18
- Re: [ft-devel] Contribution to freetype, Khaled Hosny, 2018/03/18
- Re: [ft-devel] Contribution to freetype, Werner LEMBERG, 2018/03/18
- Message not available
- Re: [ft-devel] Contribution to freetype, suzuki toshiya, 2018/03/18
- Re: [ft-devel] Contribution to freetype, Werner LEMBERG, 2018/03/18