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Re: [ttf2pt1-devel] Re: FreeType front-end in ttf2pt1
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Werner LEMBERG |
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Re: [ttf2pt1-devel] Re: FreeType front-end in ttf2pt1 |
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Sat, 14 Oct 2000 21:22:10 +0200 (CEST) |
> > > Can you list the values which could be useful in your opinion?
> > > May I ask others on the lists to comment this also?
> >
> > Well, maybe start with the things defined in TTF and Type1 ? By
> > the way, there is one more interesting piece of information that
> > is present at least in TTF and Type1: italic angle.
>
> [...]
>
> class Font
> {
> public:
> general_feature get_general_feature();
> };
>
> class TTFont : public Font
> {
> public:
> tt_feature get_tt_feature();
> };
>
> the idea is to avoid dynamic typing (which is what you suggest if
> you want to query a given font instance for the presence of a
> specific feature) but rather use static typing, i.e. to make a
> TTFont a *type*, which can be checked for at compile time. Only this
> type and its associated API provides the means to access TT specific
> features.
I fully agree. But (to continue your example) which values should be
queried with get_general_feature? And in which format shall the
values be returned?
Werner
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- Re: FT_Get_Char_Index() returns 0 for char(0x020), Just van Rossum, 2000/10/15
- Re: FT_Get_Char_Index() returns 0 for char(0x020), Tom Kacvinsky, 2000/10/15
- Re: [ttf2pt1-devel] Re: FreeType front-end in ttf2pt1 - anewsnapshot, Sergey Babkin, 2000/10/13
- Re: [ttf2pt1-devel] Re: FreeType front-end in ttf2pt1 - anewsnapshot, Werner LEMBERG, 2000/10/13
- Re: [ttf2pt1-devel] Re: FreeType front-end in ttf2pt1, Sergey Babkin, 2000/10/14
- Re: [ttf2pt1-devel] Re: FreeType front-end in ttf2pt1, Stefan Seefeld, 2000/10/14
- Re: [ttf2pt1-devel] Re: FreeType front-end in ttf2pt1,
Werner LEMBERG <=
- Re: [ttf2pt1-devel] Re: FreeType front-end in ttf2pt1, Stefan Seefeld, 2000/10/15
- Re: [ttf2pt1-devel] Re: FreeType front-end in ttf2pt1, Werner LEMBERG, 2000/10/15
- Re: [ttf2pt1-devel] Re: FreeType front-end in ttf2pt1 -anewsnapshot, Sergey Babkin, 2000/10/15
- Re: [ttf2pt1-devel] Re: FreeType front-end in ttf2pt1 -anewsnapshot, Werner LEMBERG, 2000/10/15
- Re: [ttf2pt1-devel] Re: FreeType front-end in ttf2pt1 -anewsnapshot, Sergey Babkin, 2000/10/15
- Re: [ttf2pt1-devel] Re: FreeType front-end in ttf2pt1 -anewsnapshot, Werner LEMBERG, 2000/10/15