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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
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