I see. Thanks for the answer.

Cheers,
Juan Vuletich

Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> On Mar 20, 2008, at 15:34 , Juan Vuletich wrote:
>> Isn't something like http://www.jvuletich.org/NiceFonts.html better 
>> for OLPC? (and for most Squeak users, btw...)
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> No. OLPC eventually needs to support all scripts in the world. Even 
> importing all glyphs in Bitstream Vera for regular, bold, italic, 
> bold+italic takes a huge amount of memory (the current truetype 
> importer imports only the latin1 glyph outlines). And pre-rendering 
> those glyphs would take even more space.
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> Rendering outline fonts on-the-fly is really the only option, and 
> that's what the FreeType plugin is really good at, it has been in use 
> for some time, so we'd like to deploy it asap.
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> However, even FreeType doesn't quite cut it, to support proper glyph 
> shaping/combining like for Nepali we need something more advanced like 
> Pango. The OLPC VM contains the RomePlugin with added Pango support, 
> but this is still experimental. I heard Scratch uses Pango too, but I 
> have not looked at it yet.
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> So FreeType is still only an interim solution, but way better than 
> what we have now.
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> An issue that fonts embedded in the image solve nicely is that we 
> would like to have identical rendering on all platforms. We have not 
> yet decided how to tackle this with external fonts. Ideas appreciated.
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