[interfacekit] Re: Font Face Remapping

"DarkWyrm" <bpmagic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Although, what I didn't like even more is the missing possibility 
> > of 
> > having underlined text :-)
> I plan on implementing certain styles completely internal to the font 
> subsystem for at least Western-style languages - Spanish, Russian, 
> etc.  
> I haven't even thoroughly worked out the internals to most of the 
> font 
> subsystem, but I want to make a number of internal style methods - 
> italics (via shearing), underlining, strikeout, super and 
> subscripting, 
> outline-only text, and anything else I can think of. Of course, it'll 
> have to look good, so the internal italicization thing might only be 
> for situations like I mentioned in the original post. The more cool 
> stuff that it can do (with the least work) means more general 

Perhaps we should postpone the substitution stuff a bit - since it's 
not urgently needed in R1.
To make it look good, one would have to analyze the font properties a 
bit. Also, some fonts just can't be converted algorithmically - like an 
italic script font; how to make this one "plain"?

Adios...
   Axel.

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