nanogui: compiled font size
Subject:
Re: compiled font size
From:
Vidar Hokstad ####@####.####
Date:
13 May 1999 16:45:28 -0000
Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9905131835030.2715-100000@a.ncg.net>
On Thu, 13 May 1999, Greg Haerr wrote:
> Vidar,
> I finally found time to get into your comments about the compiled font
> size in bogl. Is your concern that bogl uses longs per line of font, rather than,
> say 24 bits? Or a format that uses just enough bytes (variable) for the character
> width per character, along with pre-built chartable offsets?
>
> I can see that bogl uses at least an extra byte per scan line per character.
Yeah, basically. The code I sent Ben uses just enough bytes for the scan
line for each character. The drawing might be marginally slower, but
it should both save space and allow fonts (or individual glyphs) that are
wider than 32 pixels too.
Regards,
Vidar
