[REBOL] Re: Font compatibility across platforms.
From: bo:rebol at: 8-Nov-2000 12:31
Paul,
I believe that bold, italics, underline, strikethrough, superscript,
subscript and other styles would only be a slight addition to the font-
rendering algorithm, so I would hope that these would also be
implemented.
Remember that I am only speaking rhetorically because I have no idea
whether the team here wants to go in this direction. It is my opinion
that we should, but I am looking at it from my own perspective and not
the perspective of the company.
-Bo
On 7-Nov-2000/21:44:17-6:00, [ptretter--charter--net] wrote:
>Would that included the ability to bold, italics, and undeline on the three
>differnt fonts.
>
>Paul Tretter
>
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>Michal,
>
>Let me start by saying this is my own opinion. To be useful, REBOL/View
>would only really need three fonts in some sort of outline format.
>Serif, sans-serif and fixed. These could be scaled accurately to nearly
>any size. Therefore, they wouldn't add too much to the executable size.
>
>Also, if REBOL HQ comes up with a font format that is unique to View, it
>wouldn't take too much work to create the data for three font typefaces
>and the licensing cost would be averted.
>
>-Bo
>
>On 6-Nov-2000/22:47:54, [kracik--mbox--dkm--cz] wrote:
>>Hi Bo,
>>
>>it's good to hear that you want to have platform-independent fonts in
>>View. I think this will give REBOL tremendous advantage over other GUI
>>toolkits, Java and HTML. But how could this be done? I'm afraid that
>>licensing some good fonts may be expensive for a free product like
>>View, and also they can increase View executable size considerably.
>>
>>--
>>Michal Kracik
>>
>>[bo--rebol--com] wrote:
>>>
>>> Yes, View needs to have its own internal fonts as this is the only part
>>> of View's layout that is not completely platform-independent (as far as
>>> I can tell).
>>>
>>> -Bo
>>>
>>> On 6-Nov-2000/9:30:03+12:00, [carl--cybercraft--co--nz] wrote:
>>> >I'm finding the default View font is not giving the same results
>>> >across platforms.
>>> >
>>> >If I use a font size of 13 for instance, the text on my Amiga takes up
>>> >exactly 13 pixels vertically, (worked out by where the next line of
>>> >text is when it wraps), but on a friend's Windows box using the same
>>> >script the height is 16 pixels.
>>> >
>>> >Anyone know a solution to this?
>>> >
>>> >Carl Read.
>>> >
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