(mgp-users 00392) Re: Some magic point questions/comments/bugs

[Carlos Puchol <cpg@puchol.com>]

Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@itojun.org> wrote:
> >i had noticed this problem in the past too and thought it was because
> >of the quality of the font (it was a handmade one). it was not slanted,
> >thought. will send it out soon (i have to receover my old hard drive too).
> 
> 	before you go into trouble with old hard drive,
> 	the problem is like this:
> 	- if you use very slanted font, when we render "f" in "fox", the
> 	  topmost curve in "f" will go into the same x-axis that "o" will be
> 	  in.  in this case, the topmost curve in "f" will be mistakenly
> 	  cleared (painted with background color) when we render the "o" letter.

i see. basically the problem is not slanting.
perhaps there is a "more proper" way to render.
when rendering the "o", could the background color be set to transparent?

-c