On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Omer Zak wrote:
> > This is planned. The next release will include separation of the drawing
> > functions, so it will be easy to replace them with ones for Xlib, fbdev or
> > something else.
> Good!
OK, I just uploaded (in the same place,
http://www.arava.co.il/matan/hebrew/ft.tar.gz) which is a bit more
general, and all the input/output functions are in one file. All that is
needed to have the program working in X is implementing the 7 functions
from io.c to work in X, put them in a file xio.c, and do make bdft.x.
I also have a question: I currently implement printing by rendering (in
a defined DPI) to a bitmap in a postscript file. I want to print by
converting the TT fonts to Type42, and imbedding them in the postscript
file, but I don't know how to do that. If anyone knows of a program that
makes Type42 fonts fro truetype fonts, and/or of a program that outputs
ps files with Type42 fonts, please tell me.
> I think this is the first thing you should support. Especially as it is
> not that hard and I believe that you'll get cooperation from Chen Shapira.
>
> If your wordprocessor is in any way decent, then scripting capability will
> let other people add their favorite features, until your wordprocessor is
> practically as useful (even if not as feature-laden) as MS-Word.
>
> All you need is to ensure that any action which can be initiated by the
> user (and probably also some internal actions) - is implemented in its own
> procedure (ith arguments as necessary). Then let Chen worry about
> invoking your procedures from the interpreter.
I agree with you in general, but It is not high enough in my todo list,
and the program still lacks many features that need to be implemented in
C, before starting to think about implementing them in a scripting
language.
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