<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><br></div><div><br>On 04.10.2010, at 15:36, Tobias Pape <<a href="mailto:Das.Linux@gmx.de">Das.Linux@gmx.de</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>Am 2010-10-04 um 15:13 schrieb Bert Freudenberg:</span><br><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Hm, sounds feasible but feels like a hack.</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Not really, that's how fonts work nowadays. We do not want to pay the price in terms of memory for full coverage. So we select glyphs, and no font has full unicode coverage in any case. Now by what criteria we select the glyphs we can decide on our own.</span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>If you say so. Am I right that this creates the need for</span><br><span>a layer of Indirection: Character value -> Glyph id in a map?</span><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#005001"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0023A3"><br></font></font></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That is already the case. Use the source, Luke ;)</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><br>- Bert -</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><br></span><blockquote type="cite"><div><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>BTW: I noticed, that the Original Bitstream Vera is included as</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>TTCFont, however, the Bitmap DejaVu StrikeFont is based on</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>its Descendant. I noticed that the actual DejaVu font includes</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>an arrow whilst the Vera does not. Why not replace the Vera</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>by the DejaVu entirely? </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Because it's too big once rendered into bitmaps. I'd be interested to know how large it would be if we had at least the LGC subset covered ... but the only additional glyph we really need right now is the left-arrow. </span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>True.</span><br><span></span><br><span>So Long,</span><br><span> -Tobias</span><br></div></blockquote></div></body></html>