Re: pngcairo: suggestion for additional option

[Allin C. <cot...@wf...>]

On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, Ethan Merritt wrote:

> On Monday 26 November 2007 11:44, you wrote:
> > On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, Ethan Merritt wrote:
> > > 
> > > Is there an advantage to having this be a function call, rather 
> > > than simply exporting the scale itself in TERM_TABLE?
> > 
> > As I understand it, yes.  For pngcairo, there's at present a 
> > hard-wired oversampling scale of 20, *if* oversampling is used.  
> > I believe it's always used at present, but in principle this could 
> > be user-configurable or otherwise depend on things at run time.

Hans has put me right: I had thought of TERM_TABLE entries as 
constants but I was wrong.  However, it seems to me easier to add 
a function pointer at the end of the table: that way no *.trm code 
needs to be touched unless the term wants to offer a scale factor.

Allin Cottrell