Re: round edges on fonts & lines

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> 
> 
> On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> 
> > ...
> > Getting rounding right for beams is a little tricky; it would involve
> > some more hacking.
> 
> What about the polygon code in lookup.cc?  It should be able to use it for
> rounded slopes and beams as long as you do not come across one of the
> limitations documented in the polygon code (such as extremely thin beams
> below blotdiameter).

The problem is that the beams are drawn per stem. When the blot is too
large this leads to

        ____  _____
            \/


        ____  _____
            | |

near the stems.

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