From:	"Steven Taylor" <s_taylor AT primus DOT com DOT au>
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Subject:	TrueType fonts - please bear with me!
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Hi. A short time ago, I announced an Allegro add-on for displaying TrueType
fonts that has results as close to Windows as anyone has achieved to date.

Sorry for being a bit optomistic about the release date. Let me just say the
first release will be ready soon. It will be a mere skeleton of what's to
come, but it will have the basics, including unicode. The reason I didn't
want to release what I have got so early is because the next one would be
dramatically different and probably lack a reasonable amount of backward
compatibility.

I have changed my mind on one thing: I was originally going to release a C
version as well as C++, but I have decided just to release the C++ version.
Am I discriminating against C programmers? No way. No object oriented
knowledge is required. Like many things in C++, this library add-on is just
another way of using C++ as a better C. And I will include a document
especially for C programmers. NOTE: I am primarily a C programmer myself, so
I know what I'm doing!

- Steven Taylor.

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