> In order to preserve bitmap font names as we switch to sfnt for > XFree86, I need to have fonttosfnt put the original font name in > some place where mkfontscale can find it. > > The proper way would be to formally define a new sfnt table, for > example ``XF86''. However, I think it is simpler and quite as > reliable to put a non-standard signature in some standard place.
Why do you think it is more complicated to add a new sfnt table? > I'm currently tempted to use the ``comment'' string in the ``name'' > table. I could generate it to be > > XFree86 font, original name was -misc-fixed-... > > and then check for this string. Hmm, an XF86 table would also allow to store unconverted BDF properties which are lost otherwise. I vote for an XF86 sfnt table. Werner _______________________________________________ Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts