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New for 4th Edition
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Inferno will provide support for scalable fonts, based on the Freetype
library (version 2).
This provides access to a wider range of typefaces, and allows characters to be generated
in a particular size on demand (trading CPU time against flash or disk storage space).
Freetype does its computation using fixed-point implemented using integer hardware arithmetic for speed.
A Freetype module gives Limbo access to the low-level facilities of the library,
using Face and Glyph adts.
Further work will offer access to Freetype-generated (sub)fonts for use by the Inferno graphics subsystem.
Status: Basic Freetype now integrated
4 February 2003
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