Follow-up Comment #3, bug #62950 (project groff):
That sounds good. Is this something you've already implemented but just not
pushed yet?
One possible advantage to Ralph's idea is that no validity checking need be
done until a font is actually called upon in a document, whereas all must be
checked up front with the system sketched in comment #2. Still, I imagine the
performance difference, even on a system that has several hundred entries in
its download files, would be negligible.
A nice thing about perl is it makes "complicated" data structures easy to
implement. I read Ralph's idea as using a hash where each value is an array
rather than a scalar--that is, more a hash of arrays than an array of hashes.
(On the other hand, I've written perl code that used the latter structure but
not the former, so I perhaps shouldn't blithely declare they're both equally
simple to implement.)
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