"John Torjo" <john.lists@torjo.com> wrote in message news:41545215.4000305@torjo.com...
Andy Little wrote:
on presentation. At what resolution should kerning occur? What will pay the price: laser printers, monitors, or layout control?
These are the more interesting issues. I have only just started playing about with units'n guis and havent delved too far into text, fonts and so on. However text does as you say lead to interesting problems. It will be
For fonts, won't you use a wrapper over existing OS-primitives?
If you mean using graphics primitives to create text-characters, I hadnt thought along those lines. I would really like to reuse as far as possible existing file/platform formats for graphics and fonts. Overall , I am currently looking at the bare minimum requirements to disentangle what shouild be the simple function of drawing a vector graphic from the other parts of writing a full blown GUI application . The complexities of dealing with the large number of various file-formats for both graphics and fonts can come later. Typically a font has a name (eg [from Java] Serif, SansSerif, Monospaced), a font character has a size, optional italic, bold etc.In contrast to the function style in the original OP, I am currently thinking in terms of making everything an object, which holds the minimal data required to recreate it. When the object is output on the graphics stream, assuming this is the platform specific default stream, it will then need to be converted into the platform specific equivalent before being sent on to the platform layer. The criterion I am looking at overall is simplicity, rather than (speed and code size) performance.. regards Andy Little