[squeak-dev] fonts, characterscanners and dead primitive 103

Levente Uzonyi leves at elte.hu
Wed Sep 4 13:35:19 UTC 2013


On Tue, 3 Sep 2013, Casey Ransberger wrote:

> I'm not sure what the deal here is. It's native OS fonts, I think, and also something that hasn't come up to my recollection since Juan gave us a much-nicer-than-we-had (anti-aliased) font from Cuis.

I didn't really follow recent changes to Cuis, but AFAIK it only supports 
byte characters, so those fonts only contain some latin characters 
(Latin-9 maybe).


Levente

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> I'd like to see us depend less on host facilities now that we have the Cogs, so I'm biased, but I'd say: go ahead and break it if no one is raising an objection.
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> Is this related to the Scratch work, out of curiosity?
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> On Sep 3, 2013, at 6:21 PM, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
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>> On 02-09-2013, at 12:45 PM, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
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>>> Who, if anyone, is maintaining the FreeType package? Who, if anyone, is using it? It has some rather old methods that nastily over-ride more recent methods in the trunk image. That implies it is moribund to me.
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>> Well it certainly sounds like nobody cares about FreeType. I guess that means nobody will mind as I rewrite some of the low-level font/scanner code and almost certainly break FreeType.
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>> tim
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>> tim Rowledge; tim at rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
>> Useful random insult:- Not much to show for four billion years of evolution.
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