Re: fonts with combining characters

[Joerg Pommnitz <pommnitz@xxxxxxxxx>]

> 
> The XLFD distinguishes three options for the SPACING field:
> 
>   P  Proportional    no restrictions on the metric
>   M  Monospaced      the logical width of every character is equal, but
>                      "ink" is allowed to go beyond the logical width
>   C  CharCell        all characters are contained in boxes of equal size
> 
>
ftp://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/X11/pub/R6.4/xc/doc/hardcopy/XLFD/xlfd.PS.gz
> 
> The -misc-fixed-* fonts are all of the CharCell category, while the
> fixed-width fonts of Adobe and B&H fall into the Monospaced category,
> probably, because the renderer didn't guarantee that there is no
> out-of-box ink.

Hmm, as you might know I have an almost ready new version of ttmkfdir
sitting on my HD. One of the missing features is to properly categorize
CharCell fonts.
To those of you familiar with the TT spec, can anyone suggest a way
to distinguish between monospaced and charcell fonts from the information
contained in a TT font file?

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Regards
       Joerg

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