Re: [ft] Creating an [OT]TF font from BDF font
George Williams <[email protected]> 14 Dec 2005 14:30:01 -0800
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On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 13:16, David Turner wrote: > - I don't understand completely the difference between atoms and > non-property > strings. Aren't these the same things ? Why distinguish them then ? Well 5005.BDF_Spec.pdf says that the thing that comes after the FONT keyword should be a PostScript name-literal (which has no quotes), while properties are either integers or quoted-strings. I have no idea what the significance of this distinction is in the BDF format, therefore I thought I had better preserve it. You may be right that there is none. If anyone can guarantee that it doesn't matter, I'll remove it and say that non-property strings get no quotes, while property strings need quotes.