Re: font renderers in gdk

[David Huggins-Daines <bn711 freenet carleton ca>]

Some more comments:

I'm not a GDK guy, but I am also very interested in improving GDK's font
handling... I'm going to need something like this for GLUe anyway (in
fact most of the forthcoming innovations in GDK (i.e. Imlib support)
will be immediately useful to me).

It's important to me that the string-width functions are also allowed to
return something a little more sophisticated than a simple integer. In
fact, all measurements should be floating-point if possible. There
should be mechanisms for getting kerning and ligature information if
the font renderer is able to provide this.

Eventually, I'm going to be working on a frontend to t1lib... if anyone
else has already started doing this, then please let me know.  Perhaps
I can help out.

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David Huggins-Daines
bn711@freenet.carleton.ca
http://aix2.uottawa.ca/~s1204672