On 4/5/23 06:34, Bald Eagle wrote:
> Now that you've stuck your head deep into the glyph-handling code, how difficult
> would you say it would be to write code in SDL that would take a font file and
> create splines and/or prisms?

That is what text{} does - more or less. You just don't see the result 
is a union of a bunch of prisms (one per character) - where 'nested' 
splines making up a character have been flattened.

> 
> Or make the internal conversion exposed to SDL so that the result could be
> written to a file?

I thought about capturing the result too, and as a complete code hack, 
not too bad to do.

Really supporting such a thing in SDL, much harder for sure. I doubt 
worth it, but not thought much about performance differences, for example.

There are a large number of font tools out there which can do things 
like dump particular glyphs. It's probably not too hard to create 
something base on one of those too utilities too.

> 
> Nice work   😄

Thanks.

Oh, I sorted that FreeSerif.ttf umlaut issue - 'twas me having left some 
hacked code in place.

I've been playing with other fonts and symbols as a way to test a bit 
more. Looking good thus. You do realize somewhat quickly there are 
gazillions of free-ish fonts out there, but most cover only a small 
number of Unicode character space. Anyhow. Attached another example 
image - of some symbols this time.

One thing not working (and not expected to) is anything outside the 
Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP). I pushed there a little - and it's all 
crash, boom, bang at the moment.

Bill P.

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