Arjen,

> Some time ago I wrote a plugin to talk to the freetype 2 library. I've 
> been playing with it on and off (I like to have nice fonts in
> squeak but I don't like most font issues like advance etc.). As 
> Bitstream has published the Vera font family I decided to clean up
> and publish my effort, it's available at 
> http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/3192. The package comes with prebuild 
> library's for linux (3.4-devel1 and 3.5-devel1 both work on my system) 
> and one ttf font for testing.

  The primitive that uses a 8bit form as alpha is something I want to
have.  Thanks.  I'm not sure we want to have yet another scanning
primitive, but of course, you can always fall back to the backup code.

> Low-lights;
> * No bold or italics support

  This can be done in Squeak-level code, 

> * No real knowledge of font-familys

  once you have a way to get this info.

> * Not Unicode

  What do you mean by this?

  Thank you for sharing the good work!

-- Yoshiki