Re: [U4X-Developer] libfbx -- fonts

[Nick L. <ta...@br...>]

On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 02:15:22PM -0500, Paul Mundt wrote:
> 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.
> 	
> 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.
I'm scared to mention this .. as the overhead would be huse..
but we really should look seriously into supporting TTF (true-type)
because everyone and their pet monkey's uncle uses em.


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