>>> 4. Rasterizing (c). This is the whole purpose of METAFONT. >>> METAFONT is a rasterizer.
Yes...but not _just_ a rasterizer; it's also a language for describing the outlines to be rasterized. Not that that's terribly relevant from what I can see. >> Rasterization of vector fonts by privileged code has been a major >> source of security holes in other operating systems. > We already have support for alpha fonts, which are rasterized vector > fonts. On most supported hardware you can take a truetype font, feed > it to a utility found in xsrc/local/programs/ttf2wsfont to generate a > rendering in whatever size you specify, and load that into a > wsdisplay. The rasterizing there happens in nonprivileged code, though. > There's also something to directly load BDF fonts. Those are already rasterized; BDF is a bitmap-font format. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B
