Re: [Gzz] PEG 1003

[Tuomas Lukka]

> But that does (in AWT) make a call to ScalableFont, where this 
> functionality is not implemented. (The method always returns 1.) I made 
> a stab at it once, but didn't get it to work.

Ah, right.

> Besides, I'm not convinced at all that it would suffice, because the 
> font width would have to scale uniformly with the height, i.e. a font 
> twice as high would have to be exactly twice as wide. Otherwise, text 
> layout would be extremely disturbed, creating either big gaps or, worse 
> even, overlaps between characters (whenever you layout a text not as a 
> single text vob, but as more than one, for example in a span-based 
> view).

Ouch, that's true. 

One thought: how about sorting out AWT after the demos?

        Tuomas