Re: fonts

["William F. Maton" <wmaton ryouko dgim crc ca>]

Well, in the more general font support case, as well as support for right-
to-left, would VFlib be of any use?  According to the home page it supports:

Bitmap fonts used in X Window system 
      BDF, PCF. 
Bitmap fonts used in TeX typesetting system 
      GF, PK, TFM, Virtual Font. 
Vector fonts 
      TrueType, Type 1 
Vector fonts for Japanese Kanji characters 
      Syotai-Kurabu, JG 
Bitmap fonts for Chinese, Korean, Japanese characters 
      HBF 

Or maybe GTK or the XFree86 people would be interested?

The home page is:

	http://www.se.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~kakugawa/VFlib/

Incidentally, MagicPoint, which Miguel de Icaza used for his Gnome
presentation at USENIX, uses VFlib for font rasterizing.

wfms