Sunday, 16 December 2012

Re: Javascript and Fonts

In message <45cce0fe52.pnyoung@pnyoung.ormail.co.uk> you wrote:

> Perhaps you don't have the necessary font?

OK. Nowt to do with JavaScript, but probably RUfl. Am I right in
thinking that when the browser starts up the RUfl thingy makes
a database that tells the browser which font to look for a specific
glyph? With Unicode fonts there may be lots of glyphs missing,
and the same glyph may occur in lots of fonts.
So how does the user control this? In what order are fonts searched?
Alphabetic? Does that mean we should be renaming our fonts to get
the behaviour we want? Where is this database stored? This morning
RUfl was flashing up a message about a font, IFAOGrec. Only by putting
it in !NetSurf.Resources.Fonts could I suppress this behaviour. So how
do I flush the RUfl cache, and get it to start over when I am trying out
a new set of fonts?

Using NetSurf 3 #739. Sorry for the plethora of questions. If somebody
could point me at some documentation ... .

One more query: are there any font-editing tools for unicode fonts?
!Fonts only shows the first 256 glyphs.

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Gavin Wraith (gavin@wra1th.plus.com)
Home page: http://www.wra1th.plus.com/

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