Re: FT2 design question

[Just van Rossum]

At 10:48 PM +0000 29-02-2000, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>I've just read a headline about it...  Is the format patent-free?  Is
>it documented?  Is it freely available?

<exit dream mode, enter wild speculation mode>

FontWorks might have implemented their stroke fonts something like this:

- there is a huge box full of glyph elements, as ordinary, but unencoded TT
glyphs
- the real glyphs are composites with element sprinkled out, 2x2
transformed & offset into position

That might be the basis. I think they also use GX-style variations, but I'm
not sure if they use that in a way beyond "creating more wieghts". Ie. if
they *need* that stuff just to get the glyphs right in the first place.

I've never looked at the GX variations stuff, so I have *no* idea how
implementing that would compare to implementing MM... The concepts are
pretty cool, though.

Just