Re: Opentype support under Liunx

[Werner LEMBERG]

> I'm studying ways to provide Linux with unicode-compliant Myanmar
> character fonts.  Mark Leisure use .bdf format to enable to enter
> unicode values easily for some Indic fonts.  With reference to that,
> I did .bdf !!!

How did you do it?  With two preprocessors?  The first reorders the
input characters, the second maps the reordered characters to
composite glyphs?

> Now, my MS Windows platform friends are doing Open Type. Then, I
> became to think that it would be nice that we use the same format
> regardless of the platform and there I'm stuck:(

If the font works with Windows, it works with Linux also (using
FreeType).  The only thing needed is the reordering preprocessor.

> Btw, am I digging the right thing? Sould I just stick with .bdf at
> the moment????

It depends.  For a terminal, BDF is optimal.  For printing, you need
outline fonts.


    Werner