Re: Glyphs and the text system

[Adam Fedor]

Alexander Malmberg wrote:
> 1.
> Glyph generation. This needs to be done in the backend. I'll write one
> for the freetype-based code in back-art, but other backends might be a
> problem. I can write a dumb default one that works like the current one,
> though.

Probably good enough for now.

> 2.
> To display I'll use GSShowGlyphs(), so this will need to be implemented
> as well. I'm not sure about how this affects printing.

Maybe I could look at your 'dumb default' implementation for printing 
also, at least as a first cut.


> 3.
> In NSFont.h we have:
>
> typedef unsigned int NSGlyph;
>
> Is this intentional? How many bits is it supposed to be?

Well, it's intentional because that's how it's defined in 
OpenStep/MacOSX. If it needed to be different, we could work that out - 
probably as long as it's not fundamentatly different than an int.


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