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Re: Composite fonts for Unicode strings (was: Final request for feedback)

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Hi Carlos,

On 26/2/22 11:44, Carlos wrote:
> It is possible to create a tree of composite fonts, where each byte in
> a UTF-8 sequence dispatches to the next font, and the last one picks
> the glyph.

Thank you for the clearest example of composite fonts that I've ever
seen.  Unfortunately, they lose useful cshow (only the last byte of each
character is pushed on stack) and don't work at all with kshow.

It's an intriguing idea but I'm not sure where to go with it.

What I'm currently working on fails when exceeding 64K glyphs (Adobe
PostScript array and dictionary implementation limits) and a composite
font gets past that, but not when simply transforming a standard font
into a composite font (CharStrings limit.)

Regards,

David

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      Re: Composite fonts for Unicode strings (was: Final request for feedback) David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com> - 2022-02-28 21:39 +1100
      Re: Composite fonts for Unicode strings (was: Final request for feedback) David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com> - 2022-02-28 22:26 +1100
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