[Freetype] Re: FreeType API extension request

[Keith Packard]

Around 15 o'clock on May 28, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:

> /* Returns true if the font prefers to be indexed by name.  Currently
>    returns true for Type 1 fonts, which is suboptimal in the presence
>    of OpenType/CFF fonts converted from Type 1.  But what else can be
>    done? */
> 
> int FT_Face_Prefers_Names(FT_Face face);

I'd like this as well -- I'm currently struggling with integrating MathML 
support into Mozilla; fonts for MathML generally advertise special glyphs 
by name and I'd like to know if using the name tables is a "good" idea.

Keith Packard        XFree86 Core Team        HP Cambridge Research Lab