Font help?

[robinbloke]

Argh and brain melt.

I am trying to find a diagram that I know exists somewhere on the interweb; it is very similar to this one...



but it also includes information for accent characters placed above the top of capital letters; has anyone seen it or know where I can find it?

Comments

[gerald_duck]

Noooooo!

Font rendering is currently my life!

Right this instant, reading LJ is a displacement activity from veneering over the SDL_ttf library so I can convert TrueType fonts into bitmaps optimised for our display.

Some displacement activity it's turning out to be. Grumble.

(No, I've not seen a similar diagram with diacritics in it. My rendering engine is much simpler: each glyph just has an image, an offset vector (where to put the image relative to the cursor point) and an advance vector (what to add to the cursor point). There's some elegant cunningness in the metrical system that lets us lay out text nicely but if I told you that I'd have to kill you. In fact I've already said too much, so maybe I should kill you now…

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

If you kill me, I shall but chant font metric characteristics at you so the words will haunt your dreams forever ;)

[gerald_duck]

I have an occult firewall. And the Bayesian filter in my ouijaassassin would cotton on pretty quickly…

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

No, but I do like this glossary
http://www.fontfactory.com/glossary.php

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Potentially useful; thanks!

[the-mendicant.livejournal.com]

Am I even going to understand the answer if I ask you what you need it for?

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

It's not that bad at all actually; it's all about determining where the 'top' of a font/glyph is. :)

[surje.livejournal.com]

yes you've got to be careful when your accents go outside your em-box.