Re: [Freetype] Augmenting a Font

[Werner LEMBERG]

> I've got an application where I'd like to synthesize several glyphs
> and add them to an existing face. Specifically, I'd like to make
> some fractions out of the numerals already in a font (selected by
> the user, so I don't know what font it is beforehand). They would
> have a private encoding in the UNICODE F0000 range and some
> appropriate metrics. Then my rendering code can just refer to UF0xxx
> and I can compute the layout of these glyphs easily.
> 
> FreeType2's API doesn't describe a way to augment a face. Is there a
> straight-forward way to accomplish this?

No.  I think it is easiest to do this on a layer between FreeType and
your application.


    Werner