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

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