Re: Given Up on Roman Orthography

BPJ wrote:
>> In case anyone's interested, I've created a small Java applet which
>> displays a string in an outline font.
>
>Could the applet be changed to *draw* the character rather than using a
>font, defining each char as a low-resolution bitmap?  That would overcome
>the difficulty with downloading fonts, different computers using different
>font formats, etc.
Well... The outline fonts can be scaled, sheared, rotated, mirrored,
drawn in different colors, unlike the bitmap-based ones. Though the
bitmap fonts can be much prettier, of course, if hand-drawn carefully.
Also, in case I wasn't very clear, my applet doesn't use any of the
existing outline file formats. Instead I've designed a simple text
font format, which is interpreted by the applet without any necessity
to download or install something.

Anyway, if anyone wants to use this sort of technology (either outline-
or bitmap-based) on their web pages, I'll be glad to help. Please visit
my sample page at http://noir.crocodile.org/~trivee/fonts.html to see
what I'm talking about. Of course, your browser has to support Java to
see the applets.

Regards,
    Vladimir.