[U4X-Developer] libfbx -- fonts

[Paul M. <le...@ch...>]

It has come to my attention that the current font setup under
libfbx just plain sucks. In fact, sucking would be a good thing
in comparison. We need to do a few of the following before it
will be even remotely useful:

	- Include a lame default font in a header
		+ This can be small
		+ It gives us a fallback for systems
		  not equipped with our list of supported
		  fonts.
	- Provide support for other types of fonts
		+ We can dynamically load a wide variety
		  of different fonts.
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The only problem with supporting multiple types of fonts, is
the lame overhead (and code size) that we add into libfbx just
for supporting them.

Right now, libfbx-font.c is roughly 13kB. Reallistically, we
don't want to exceed 25kB on all of our font support in
total (not including the font in a header, of course). So..
I'm open to suggestions that people have on what we should look
at supporting.

Any other points anyone want to make on this issue?

Regards,

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