From: "Steven Taylor" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: TrueType fonts - please bear with me! Lines: 21 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Organization: Internet Primus Message-ID: <930760805.697863@diddley.primus.com.au> Cache-Post-Path: diddley.primus.com.au!unknown AT ras610 DOT ports DOT adel DOT primus DOT com DOT au X-Cache: nntpcache 2.3.3 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 02:08:52 +0930 NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.134.0.92 X-Complaints-To: abuse AT telstra DOT net X-Trace: nsw.nnrp.telstra.net 930760802 203.134.0.92 (Thu, 01 Jul 1999 02:40:02 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 02:40:02 EST To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com 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.