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[Carl Poirier <carl.poirier.2@xxxxxxxxx>]

Lorenzo, please read my last email on the developer's mailing list. I
suggested we use it :D


On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 3:13 PM, Lorenzo Marcantonio <
l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 09:37:31PM +0300, Vesa Solonen wrote:
> > Wonderful work, especially the character set.
>
> Too bad for the non-compatibility with the stock kicad (due to the
> different metrics) and no support beyond latin-1.
>
> I guess I *could* generate something from my repertoire into the format
> used by fontconv.awk, place all the graft points and then rebuild the
> whole unicode shebang. Had to hand tweak a lot of the characters from
> the original shx (also because of license issues).
>
> Need motivation for that (i.e. enough people wanting that). The metric
> thing is actually not a lot intrusive (mostly the scaling factor).
>
> What about a loadable file instead of hardcoding the whole thing?
> Nothing excessively fancy, just the couple of metrics needed and the
> codepoint to hershey string mapping.
>
> Let me know if you are interested.
>
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