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> As a small project, I have developed some new font types for Allegro.
> Please see the attached text file for a more thorough description.
> Although this would sit alright as an addon, it would require me to
> distribute patched versions of grabber, dat2c and Allegro itself, so I
> would like to ask for your comments on merging it into Allegro.
Why do you need to modify the core library ? I thought the font interface
was flexible enough to be able to handle new font types (see for example
AllegTTF and AllegroFont).
> On the plus side:
> - Anti-aliased and truecolor rendering.
Does this mean that you want to merge a custom anti-aliasing rendering
engine into Allegro ?
> On the minus side:
> - The font creation tool would have to be shipped as a separate
> package, since it will be quite large once it is written (probably
> almost as large as the grabber).
IMHO the mere need for a font creation tool is already a big minus. I think
we shoud try to leverage the existing tools and this of course means using
the existing font formats.
> If you are really interested, then you can grab the package from
> (temporarily):
> http://www.lwithers.demon.co.uk/exfont.tar.bz2
Please use gzip instead of bzip2. Not everyone has bzip2 installed on his
system.
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Eric Botcazou