1. better with bigfonts
- Posted by Norm Goundry <bonk1000 at HOTMAIL.COM>
Jun 22, 1999
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Last edited Jun 23, 1999
Especially Colin,
The routines you wrote for Bigfont (for me and the Chinese Translator) are
now working OK! I just got the execution file to do its thing properly and
now I have Chinese Characters popping up on the screen like it is supposed
to do. But there is a bit of a problem in the 'n' enumerator in
bigfont.e. The file I currently am using is 48 normal files in length (48
files jammed together) and n=10038 so is is giving me a -1 and cancelling
out the bf_load procedure... killing the program. However this is minor
and can be easily fixed.
Anyway, Thank You very much Colin!!!
I will post more to you at your own personal site, but since this is a big
first for EU I wanted everyone to know who really did the bull-work on this
part of it all.
And I promise to move on up to 2.1 ASAP
Regards,
Norm
2. Re: better with bigfonts
Thus spake Norm Goundry on Tue, 22 Jun 1999:
>The routines you wrote for Bigfont (for me and the Chinese Translator) are
>now working OK!
Has anyone done anything about context-sensitive fonts of the Arabic/Urdu
tradition where the glyphs change shape depending on whether they are word-
initial, word-medial or word-final?
The beauty of Chinese/Korean is you can get away with a fixed-size block, one
per glyph, and everything's hunkydory.
Urdu, however, (which can be done fixed-size but looks gross) looks better with
varying length blocks and all the context-sensitive stuff. For instance the
'noon', which does for an 'n', has a word-initial form, a word-medial form, a
word-final form and a word-final form where it is being used to indicate
nasalisation of the previous vowel (in which case its dot is missing). Oh yes,
Urdu has dots, lots of them, though thankfully not as many as Sindhi.
Anyway, let me know if anyone's doing anything about this, ok?
Bruce.
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3. Re: better with bigfonts
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At 11:39 PM 6/22/99 -0400, you wrote:
>The routines you wrote for Bigfont (for me and the Chinese Translator) are
now working OK!
Hi Norm,
Sorry I wasn't around in your hour(s) of grave need. I was up-country in
Mali where they have little round huts with grass roofs, but not too many
ISPs 
Anyway, it sounds like you came through it with flying colors! I have been
thinking about how bigfont should eventually work and I have made a few
changes in that direction. I am attaching a new bigfont.e and bf_test.ex
which also should work with Eu 2.0 (untested because I didn't keep a copy
of 2.0). Let me know if it is ok.
Regards, Colin
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