On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 01:44:04PM +0100, pancake wrote: > why do you need TTF? font rendering is a really complex stuff, in dwk yes > we were only planning to support monospaced fonts, calculate sizes yes > with changing size of fonts is really complex and cpu-intensive task and yes > i dont think it matters to the user. no, sorry
In non-uriel style, yes, font rendering is horribly complicated and an entirely fucked up discipline, but I don't think a "real" widget set can skip out on it. Bitmap fonts are fine for programming (and I even use it for web browsing when it's dark and I switch the theme to white-on-black), but often sub-pixel tuned ttf is just more comfortable to read. Actually I wrote a similar widget set that I use in frtplot (frtplot.port70.net), straight C and everything, and.. it only does bitmap font rendering (no Unicode though). But I wouldn't want to use it for software that isn't exclusively for programmers.. Mate
