Re: [Devel] Half-width ASCII in monospace CJK fonts

[Anthony Fok]

Hello David and ha shao,

I finally took a first look at it (thanks to your ftcheckfixedwidth
program), and made a small modification to ttgload.c.  The simplistic
patch appears to work well on the fonts on my computer, e.g. Arphic
fonts, MingLiU.ttc, SimSun18030.ttc, Courier New, etc.

Please let me know whether this patch is good enough.  :-)

Thanks,

Anthony

On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 09:32:57AM +0800, ha shao wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 11:15:23PM +0100, David Turner wrote:
> > However, I have no idea for the moment of any "smarter" algorithm (maybe
> > one that looks at other tables in the file, but which ones precisely).
> > Keep in mind that any alternative solution should work on the *vast*
> > majority of available fonts today.
> 
> How about based on the deviation of the character advance from
> the global advance. A 50% deviation obviously says: I am not using the
> global advance width. For a malformed fixedwidth font, Maybe 15% is enough
> a barrier. Otherwise, the font should not be called a fixedwidth font.
> Or better, a more appropriate  number can be figured out with the 
> tool you post.

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