Re: otf and font-metrics?

[Werner LEMBERG]

> the OTF font mechanism is shaping up nicely.  I do have one question
> still; we would like to include font metrics in the OTF as well.
> Currently, we can hack this in using the character table, but it
> would be nice if we could store the metrics directly in the
> appropriate fields.  Right now, we get the extents of the glyphs,
> which is nice, but gives strange results when concatenating trills
> or arpeggio signs.

What exactly do you need to be stored?  I fear that we have to add a
private table (cf. the TeX-related tables `TCHL' and `TEXL' in
fontforge) in case more than the standard data is necessary.


   Werner