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Re: FontV information

From Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.acorn.programmer
Subject Re: FontV information
Date 2011-10-31 12:01 +0100
Organization MW Software
Message-ID <2265c32a52.martin@bach.planiverse.com> (permalink)
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          wpb <w.blatchley@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Would there be any use in adding support to RO5 for FontV at this
> stage, or would the fact that RO4/6 don't support it make the addition
> essentially useless? My own reasons for wanting to vectorise the calls
> would be nullified by the OS split, unfortunately.

The question is: What do you actually want to do with FontV? Is this 
really required for what you have in mind?

Secondly, I cannot see why the OS split would make such a big 
difference. Even if the OS was not split, your software would only 
work on a new version of the OS with this feature present and would 
fail to work on 99.9% of RISC OS systems that do not have that very 
latest version installed.

Finally, if there is a good reason for FontV support I cannot see why 
it could not be implemented in both source trees. Of course, 
deployment to users would require a new end-user version, but that 
affects both branches.

-- 
Martin
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Martin Wuerthner         MW Software      http://www.mw-software.com/
        RISC OS Software for Design, Printing and Publishing
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FontV information wpb <w.blatchley@yahoo.com> - 2011-10-24 06:05 -0700
  Re: FontV information Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> - 2011-10-24 19:14 +0200
    Re: FontV information wpb <w.blatchley@yahoo.com> - 2011-10-24 10:31 -0700
      Re: FontV information Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> - 2011-10-25 10:23 +0200
        Re: FontV information John Tytgat <this@is.invalid> - 2011-10-25 14:12 +0200
          Re: FontV information Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> - 2011-10-26 13:01 +0200
            Re: FontV information druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2011-10-27 11:08 +0100
              Re: FontV information wpb <w.blatchley@yahoo.com> - 2011-10-31 00:53 -0700
                Re: FontV information John Tytgat <this@is.invalid> - 2011-10-31 11:51 +0100
                Re: FontV information Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> - 2011-10-31 12:01 +0100
                Re: FontV information wpb <w.blatchley@yahoo.com> - 2011-11-07 07:53 -0800

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