On Mon Jun 11 18:36:04 EDT 2012, mirtchov...@gmail.com wrote: > > i don't think it's a sizing thing. i think ttf2subf is somehow getting > > the baseline wrong for letters like Â. (try cyberbit even at 14.) > > I don't see height issues with cyberbit (at "magic" constant of 64 > even) but I am seeing width issues, especially the '0', which seems to > always be chopped off at the end.
i don't know. if you render cyberbit with the linux tools, the a will sit higher. the legs won't be chopped off. don't you think that's because the baseline is incorrect? > > http://mirtchovski.com/screenshots/cyberbit-erik.png > > If I play around with Set_Char_Size's arguments I can get cyberbit in > various states of disrepair, especially if I touch the horizontal and > vertical dpi, but something as simple as setting the width to be > slightly higher than the height seems to do the trick: > > http://mirtchovski.com/screenshots/cyberbit-erik2.png unfortunately that changes the weight. oddly, i don't see that problem: hget http://ftp.quanstro.net/other/w.png|page i'd be happy to put all my fonts on sources or some other place, should folks find that useful. > In other news, I got ttf2subf to generate higher-than-65535 code > points from the dejavu font. they look quite nice, actually: ah, yes. i did that a while ago. i am using a number of bucky characters. these are the ones i pull into my standard font ; <$font awk 'length($1)>=5+2' 0xfff80 0x100080 ../symbola/symbola.14.fff80 0x1f8b2 0x1f9b2 ../symbola/symbola.14.1f8b2 0x1f7da 0x1f8b1 ../symbola/symbola.14.1f7da 0x1f70a 0x1f7d9 ../symbola/symbola.14.1f70a 0x1f652 0x1f709 ../symbola/symbola.14.1f652 0x1f59d 0x1f651 ../symbola/symbola.14.1f59d 0x1f4e9 0x1f59c ../symbola/symbola.14.1f4e9 0x1f44f 0x1f4e8 ../symbola/symbola.14.1f44f 0x1f3a6 0x1f44e ../symbola/symbola.14.1f3a6 0x1f300 0x1f3a5 ../symbola/symbola.14.1f300 0x1f0bb 0x1f1bb ../symbola/symbola.14.1f0bb 0x1f000 0x1f0ba ../symbola/symbola.14.1f000 0x1d797 0x1d897 ../symbola/symbola.14.1d797 0x1d6b4 0x1d796 ../symbola/symbola.14.1d6b4 0x1d5bd 0x1d6b3 ../symbola/symbola.14.1d5bd 0x1d4dc 0x1d5bc ../symbola/symbola.14.1d4dc 0x1d404 0x1d4db ../symbola/symbola.14.1d404 0x1d303 0x1d403 ../symbola/symbola.14.1d303 0x1d202 0x1d302 ../symbola/symbola.14.1d202 0x1d101 0x1d201 ../symbola/symbola.14.1d101 0x1d000 0x1d100 ../symbola/symbola.14.1d000 - erik