Re: NSGlyph is still a puzzle
Re: NSGlyph is still a puzzle
- Subject: Re: NSGlyph is still a puzzle
- From: "Anabelle Masour" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 22:33:33 +0000
The values of NSGlyphs are determined by the font, so within a given
process two different NSLayoutManagers will return the same results for
the same text with the same attributes--bearing in mind that by "same
text" I mean the same entire text, not just the same single character,
since the conversion from character to glyph does sometimes depend on
context. The extreme example here is probably Arabic, a cursive-based
writing system in which the written forms of most characters change
radically depending on the preceding and/or following characters.
Thank you very much for your answer.
I believe I understand most of it now. But I want to ask this just for
clarification. All the possible written forms in arabic are enumerated in
the NSFont, yes ? It is not the case that some NSGlyphs are generated
dynamically like the characters a (small a) and 4(accent aigu) making a (a
accent aigu) in French ? There must be a a NSGlyph already in the NSFont ?
<Anabelle
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