Re: [Devel] initial release of FTLayout/GXLayout

[Masatake YAMATO]

> > About GXLayout
> > ==============
> > GXLayout provides interface for mort, morx, lcar, format 0, 2 3 kern, 
> > feat TrueTypeGX/AAT tables. 
> I notice you have left out format 1 kerning tables. I know I found
> Apple's docs incomplete when working with them and had to get
> clarification from someone at Apple, I can pass that on if it would be
> of any help. I've also got a sample font with a format 1 table lying
> around if you want to test.

Interesting. We've written loader and automaton for the format1.
However, as you wrote, we did not test.

> On the other hand no one ever uses them so there may be no point in
> implementing them.
OpenType is much popular than GX nowadays. However, if FTLayout and 
Fontforge supports GX, we can use GX font on our system.

> > It seems that Pfaedit can generate TrueTypeGX/AAT font. However, we
> > have not tested GXLayout against fonts generated by Pfaedit yet.
> It supports almost all of 'morx' and all of 'kern' & 'lcar'. PfaEdit's
> fonts seem to work with worldtext.

So if the font generated by Fontforge is not worked well on GXLayout,
it may be a bug of GXLayout:-P.

Masatake