From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Aug 26 2002 - 23:06:01 EDT
--- Joaquín Cuenca Abela <cuenca@pacaterie.u-psud.fr>
wrote: > On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 19:47, Alan Horkan
wrote:
> >
> >
> > > > > >
> http://pino.frontisterion.nl/uwog/secret.jpg
> >
> >
> > > > > Hi Marc,
> > > > > This is really nice work and will be a
> significant new feature for
> > > > > us. However I was wondering if you could go
> one better and display the
> > > > > font name in the font itself within the drop
> down box.
> > > > >
> > > > > ie So the font "Comic Sans MS" is displayed
> in Comic Sans MS font.
> > > > >
> > > > > This is what MS Word 2000/97 does.
> > >
> > > Excellent suggestion IMHO.
> > >
> > > > but then Dingbats and symbol fonts are totally
> unrecognisable !
> > >
> > > These fonts will require a bit more of care,
> yes.
> >
> > Is there any way to automatically identify a
> > symbol fonts?
>
> Not a symbol, but you can know if it has the need
> glyphs or not. If that becomes a problem I can
> implement it pretty quickly, don't worry :)
This won't work. The reason Symbol fonts are such a
pain is that they lie about what glyphs they have.
They tell you they have the letters A, B, C, etc but
those glyphs are actually symbols.
Good new symbol fonts may retain this encoding and
have the unicode encoding too, I think this is
possible
but i'm not sure that it is, or if they are made this
way even if it is possible.
> > If not then this sounds like it would need a lot
> > more care and we could get tripped up everytime
> > someone adds a new symbol font we dont currently
> > know about.
This does indeed happen now with "exotic" fonts.
Other programs don't seem to care but it would be nice
if we could handle them better.
Andrew.
> don't worry about that (well, at least with the xft
> build)
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Joaquín Cuenca Abela
> cuenca@pacaterie.u-psud.fr
>
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