On 1/15/19 1:38 AM, ingo wrote:
> in news:5c3d53b6$1@news.povray.org clipka wrote:
> 
>> So far it seems as easy as eating pancakes.
> 
> Would it also be possible to make the fonts avalable as splines? Thinking
> of spheresweeps, sweeping spheres, lofting and extruding mesh's,
> 
> ingo
> 

Supposing you know font splines are outline/edge based so some extra 
processing would be needed for a stroke spline as might come from a 
mouse or tablet.

Are you asking for the font splines as is or as variable width pen 
strokes say?

Aside:
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During a crazy few days a couple years ago I made a serious start on 
software for creating a POV-Ray library (spheresweep like def) 
equivalent of the GNU Unifont:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Unifont

The idea was to create some initial set of centered linear bezier 
segments - with start/end width spec - from the Unifont/other open 
source mono-spaced fonts with some automation and then refine it over time.

The thought was to have available a centered spline definition of high 
resolution which might be much more useful to folks than the Unifont is. 
In creating other fonts, doing character recognition or whatever. 
POV-Ray as an actual font editor/analyzer of sorts, I guess, working 
from an initial Unifont-like POV-Ray compatible center-line stroke 
database.

I am, on odd and even days, not that sane.

Bill P.

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