We are happy with them :-)

Although, Squeakers like to have arrows in their fonts, at least for 
left arrow (used for assignment) and up arrow (for return). That would 
be unicode 2190 and 2191. Any chance of adding these?

But you are right, subpixel rendering would be sweet. I don't think we 
have a BitBlt rule for per-component alpha yet, though. Should be a fun 
little project: make the alphas come from the source form, and blend 
with the constant color (halftoneForm).

Anyone looking for getting famous in the 3.7 release? Sub-pixel font 
smoothing would be great!
[From another thread] I vote for each Squeak release being more sexy 
than ever :-)

-- Bert

Am Donnerstag, 26.06.03 um 14:28 Uhr schrieb <Jim.Gettys at hp.com>:

> OK, thanks.
>
> I hope you are happy with them...
>
> Would be nice to get Squeak's character rendering to play the same
> tricks we do on Linux with Xft....  (hint adjustment, subpixel stuff,
> as well as AA).  That part of Xr isn't done yet, so I can't yet point
> you at cross platform code for text rendering that "does the right 
> thing",
> but hopefully sometime in the next few months, that will get 
> implemented.
>
> For a taste of what is possible, see: 
> http://zap.crl.dec.com/Screenshot-4.png
> which is all in Vera (though just before the final round of tuning Jim 
> Lyles
> did for us, as you can detect dasily in the monospace in the terminal 
> emulator).  I really should generate some final screen shots 
> sometime....
>
>
>                                       - Jim
>
> --
> Jim Gettys
> Cambridge Research Laboratory
> HP Labs, Hewlett-Packard Company
> Jim.Gettys at hp.com
>
>> From: <diegogomezdeck at consultar.com>
>> Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 09:10:13 -0400 (EDT)
>> To: <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>> Cc: <Jim.Gettys at hp.com>
>> Subject: Re: [ANN] Bitstream Vera Fonts with TTCFontFixes
>> -----
>> Hi Jim,
>>
>> I didn't change anything on the fonts and I'm beleive that noboddy 
>> change
>> them.
>>
>> The changes we're talking about is in the squeak-side to handle these 
>> fonts.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Diego
>>
>>> Are the modifications you mention to the fonts, or to Squeak to deal
>>> with them?
>>>
>>> If they are modifications to the fonts themselves, I need to know 
>>> about
>>> them so that the changes can go upstream (presuming they are 
>>> reasonable
>>> changes) and we keep everthing in sync...
>>>                               - Jim
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jim Gettys
>>> Cambridge Research Laboratory
>>> HP Labs, Hewlett-Packard Company
>>> Jim.Gettys at hp.com
>
>