Announcing alpha of port.trm (patch on sourceforge)

[Chris K <gnu...@li...>]

Hello,

The port.trm has reached a temporary feature plateau.  So I have posted it to
sourceforge's patch tracker:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=2055&atid=302055

The next things it needs are image support and a binary protocol.

The text metrics are hard coded at the moment, but could be made into terminal
options.

The oversampling may also become an option and/or part of the protocol.

Enhanced text support really needs two-way communication, and the best way to do
that would be pass in a fifo name or a file descriptor number as a terminal or
command line option.  A hard-coded default might work, but is less flexible.

I have not really handled text encoding issues.  My haskell back end likes
unicode, which should mean it is iso-latin-1 (iso-8859-1) for the 128-255 range.
 Going to a binary protocol will likely mean that I use a smarter IO library
which will also give me encoding options for text.

-- 
Chris K