Re: tx fonts [Re: [Texmacs-dev] txexa font]

[David Allouche]

On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 04:39:41PM -0600, Nix N. Nix wrote:
>
> I wonder though:  We could treat the \bracext character as a special
> case, because it's so simple.  We could stretch its bitmap in only the x
> direction using a simple blt stretch, because however the antialiasing
> algorithm decides to vertically render a single column of pixels must be
> the same for all columns of pixels.  So, we can stretch the bitmap ad
> infinitum and continue to claim that it is correctly rendered.  It's
> like those Web site backgrounds that consist of a long, pixel-thin,
> vertical gradient which, when tiled, appears as a vertical gradient
> across the entire page.

Maybe... I do not know what is possible without introducing more
dirtiness than Joris is willing to accept.

But you are still going to be annoyed by the edges of the brace
extremities and center, unless you also customize the order in which
glyphs are drawn.

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