Re: Linux console fonts

[Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl]

	From: Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@cl.cam.ac.uk>

	http://www.microsoft.com/typography/tt/tt.htm

Thanks! (Lots of Word documents there. Must find out
which Linux programs handle Word format.)

	The other main issue will be bidi output for Hebrew and Arabic.

Hmm. I already did that long, long ago - for 0.99p12 I think.
The idea was, if I recall correctly:
D1. For each console a default direction
D2. For each console a current direction
D3. For each console a local direction
P1. For each console a current position
P2. For each console a local position

Each of these is set by some escape sequence.
A reset uses D1 to set the direction.
Ingredient D2 determines from what margin we start filling a line.
We use position P1 to put new symbols, unless D3 differs from D2
in which case new symbols are put at P2, and all text between P1
and P2 is shifted.

[This local stuff is for the occasional English word
in the Hebrew text.]

The code is only a handful of lines, a very simple change.

[I asked whether people were interested but no-one was,
except perhaps for Goerwitz who also wanted that X, xterm,
emacs, TeX etc understood all of this, and was not interested
in just a console driver that understood bidi stuff.
If people want it now I can very easily reimplement it.]

Andries
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