[Freeglut-developer] Helvetica 12 bitmap "f" and "j"

[Fay J. F C. AAC/W. <joh...@eg...>]

Gentlemen,

	Someone in the PLIB development community (which has bitmapped fonts
very similar to those of "freeglut") has noticed that the Helvetica 12-point
letters "f" and "j" leave very little space (actually, virtually none) to
the right and so tend to run into the succeeding letters.  To fix this, and
to make his text more readable, he increased the widths of those two glyphs
by one pixel.  An example of his "before" text can be found at

http://members.aon.at/mfranz/fgfs_gui8.jpg

If you look at the top line ("Show frame rate") and the second and third
check boxes from the bottom ("object") you can see the problem.

	My question is, do we want to do this to "freeglut"?  It will make
it differ from GLUT in this regard.

John F. Fay
Technical Fellow, Jacobs/Sverdrup TEAS Group
joh...@eg...
850-729-6330