Re: [ft] question on FT number formats

[George Williams]

On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 04:57, Johannes Walther wrote:
> I don't understand what 16.16 and 26.6 formats are
> that FT uses or furthermore how users of FT are
> affected by that.
These are actually truetype formats.
They are fixed point numbers 
  16.16 means that the binary point should be shifted by 16 bits right
(so to get a double you would do: <number>/65536.0)
  26.6 means the binary point should be shifted 6 bits right (so to get
a double <number>/64.0)