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Re: OT: Programs You Wish Existed

From:Nokta Kanto <red5_2@...>
Date:Thursday, March 2, 2006, 14:50
It would be interesting to have a font-rendering system that can distort
characters based on contextual information, for rendering a visually
appealing approximation to cursive english, arabic calligraphy, or chinese
calligraphy for example.  Current contextual font rendering systems are at
the level of kerning and ligatures; they don't distort individual glyphs.

A programmable Input Method Editor would also be cool, but I don't know if
that's a sufficiently novel project.  How novel does it have to be?

--Noktakanto