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Re: fonts with combining characters

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Subject: Re: fonts with combining characters
From: Keith Packard <keithp@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 08:11:52 -0800
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> 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?

I suspect TT font's don't encode such information; it's really quite difficult
in an outline format to prove that every possible pixel size will keep every
pixel within the box bounded by the setwidth of the characters and the 
designed font height.  And, I've seen very few fonts which do, except for
the specially hacked X charcell fonts.

-keith


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References:
- Re: fonts with combining characters
  - From: Joerg Pommnitz

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