On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 10:44, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
Fonts *shouldn't* be all *that* hard to create. The way I see it, there is 13-dimensional configuration space where each dimension represents one of the parameters in the font string. For example:
-b&h-lucida-medium-r-normal-sans-8-80-75-75-p-45-iso8859-9
The last field should really be UTF. We need to make that switch. It's just too insane to continue with this heterogeneous collection. (OTOH, I know of some problems with UTF, which may be harder to correct than one might think. )
There's much more to designing a good font than that. I'm no fan of MS, but they do do some things right (occassionally, and I'm sure by accident). Here's a good article on fonts: http://www.microsoft.com/typography/developers/fdsspec/default.htm
To be fair, the comercial Unix companies have contributed a great deal to Linux. There's been a lot of money put into linux R & D.
Well, yeah... (blush) that too.
It _shall_ be done! Did you look at the links in my document? http://baldur.globalsymmetry.com/proprietary/com/wri/ch05.html
In particular: http://crl.nmsu.edu/~mleisher/xmbdfed.html http://pfaedit.sourceforge.net/
I hadn't looked into those documents, but I'll spend some quality time with them now. Jody Harris -- Realization Systems, Inc. http://www.realizationsystems.com/