Re: [ft-devel] OT-SVG: Some issues I have run into with the previous design decisions

[Alexei Podtelezhnikov]

> Just one question, I grepped the source code of the current master to see 
> where
> else `other' field was being used. It turns out that it is used only once 
> inside the
> function `cff_compute_max_advance' which is currently not in use with the
> comment, "unused until we support pure CFF fonts". Can you help me understand
> what a pure CFF fonts is? I want to make sure nothing conflicts since I will 
> be using
> `other' field for SVG data.

$ git grep '[.>]other[ ;=]'
src/base/ftobjs.c:    slot->other         = NULL;
src/cff/cffgload.c:    CFF_Font     cff = (CFF_Font)face->other;
src/type42/t42objs.c:    slot->other         = NULL;

TT_Loader has an 'other' but not TT_Face. These look meaningless, all of them.