[comp.sources.wanted] accessing fonts in a straight forward way - any references ?

mfinegan@uceng.UC.EDU (michael k finegan) (07/30/90)

I would like to display fonts on a graphics 'screen'. I have been able to
display the fixed size IBM-like (8x8) fonts, but would like to use
scalable fonts, and use more sophisticated, public domain, fonts.

I certainly don't want to decipher the internals of something like TeX,
but there must be some standard font representation / display techniques
for raster displays. I would prefer 1 plane of arbitrary depth - allowing
anti-aliasing techniques.

The only representation / display I am familiar with are the Targa font
display routines - using stroke information and an arbitrary width line
draw primitive. What are common methods, and are there implementation
oriented references ?
					Thanks!
						Mike Finegan
						mfinegan@uceng.UC.EDU