> My question again. Why is it better to pass lsb/rsb knowledge to higher > level than to teach freetype to render a single word and provide an > interface for that?
There are several reasons not to do that in FreeType: - the font engine doesn't do caching, so performance is going to suck - sophisticated text layout requires precise knowledge of these details anyway - what about all sophisticated effects like hollowing, texturing, embossing and other stuff like that. So in short, FreeType is neither a text layout or graphics library, and shouldn't try to do this itself. > Do we really need to replicate the same code in every application? > In every library that does its own text layout, yes ! An alternative would be to hack FT_Get_Kerning to return "adjusted" values, but this would require implementing a rather complicated caching scheme within the engine if we don't want performance to suck horribly. Moreover, this is likely to break some libraries... - David _______________________________________________ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel
