Re: [PATCH] Re: not-so-ancient flags

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > Below is my patch of feta-banier.mf.
>>
>> While I don't strictly oppose to adding new glyphs, I am wondering
>> why you are creating them.  It would be more flexible to have a new
>> function to do this, since you can vary thickness and slant
>> dynamically.
>
> I don't oppose.  However, I can program MF, but I have problems to do
> such things in Scheme.

Lookup::round_filled_polygon() will setup the required scheme code if
called from C++.

Probably, we'd need to transform Stem::flag() into a Scheme callback
to be able to override it.

> Please have a look at issue #652 also.

I did, but I have trouble imagining the pipeline you propose, as well
as how the cost-benefit tradeoff could ever be worth the trouble.

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