On 25-Nov-02, Matt Sealey wrote: > When your entire font set is in a normal style, and your italics and > bold characters are automatically generated, that's a little space > saved there. > > I can implement real font family support now, which would leverage > ttf.library features to load real Italic glyphs, via standard ordinary > font APIs (i.e. load the font as "Helvetica" with italic set in the > ta_Style flags and see if it comes back with the flag still set..)
Algorithmic bold and italics as done with Amiga bitmap fonts works badly because the kerning doesn't get changed, so you end up with letters touching each other. Family support would be a big improvement. Regards -- Don Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED]
