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Author Re: Please, not more font packages
Roger Leigh

2004-09-25, 5:55 pm

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Darren Salt <linux@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk> writes:

> I demand that Roger Leigh may or may not have written...
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> fonty-dev /may/ be of help - it contains psf2sbf and sbf2psf, which convert
> between PSF and plain-text source.


The SBF format looks like it can cope with arbitrarily-sized glyphs.
It also references the glyphs by their UCS id, and can handle
fallbacks. I'll take a closer look at it--it looks like it might be
quite useful.

Thanks for pointing it out!
Roger

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