Hello,

  Squeak comes with its own vector graphics engine, and the TTF for
generic text is rendered by the engine.  The loaded TTF metric info is
converted to the internal format suitable to the engine.

  The text renderer doesn't support any sofiscated shaping and
ligature that is needed to render indian scripts.  There are a lot of
things to be done.

  The best resource is the source code, I have to say.  Look at
classes called TTCFont, and put a line something like:

char = $X ifTrue: [self doOnlyOnce: [self halt]].

into #computeForm: method or somewhere to understand how it works.

  Hope this helps,

-- Yoshiki


At Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:35:53 +0530,
Prabhakar katlakunta wrote:
> 
> hi everyone,
> i require a book or an tutorial, on Squeak for TTF Support. if any one
> have any idea please mention. if any pointers are given, i will be
> greatefull.
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> K.Prabhakar
>