From: Dan Hollis <goemon@sasami.anime.net>
  To  : 'ggi-develop@eskimo.com' <ggi-develop@eskimo.com>
  Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 11:16:21 -0700 (PDT)

RE: GgiPuts and Co...

On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, BERNARD Sebastien wrote:
> An application doesn't need thousands of glyphs for its GUI.

A web browser. Really.

> You just cannot cache each of the character (for latin ones I mean). Some
> character have kerning, some characters are different, whether they are
> next to some special one (like the 'f' and the 'i' or the 'a' and the
> 'e'). In particular cases, you have to cache pairs of character, and so
> on...

None of this applies to kanji fonts. There are no ligatures in kanji
fonts. They are monospace. All of them.

> I don't know the particularities of the asian typography rules. How
> about approach of char,

None.

> the space between words,

There are no spaces between words.

> paragraphs, etc..

Paragraphs are as usual.

> According to my memory, there are special fonts and alphabets to work around
> the problem for the computer needs.

The only "special fonts" are bitmapped ones at pre-set sizes e.g. 16x16,
24x24. Which means to get odd sizes you have to scale them -> jaggies.
Yuck. (Thats the whole point behind outline kanji fonts.)

> (Kanji fonts don't take Go of memories).

Outline ones will, if you insist on pre-rendering them.

-Dan