[Haskell-cafe] design question/font metrics

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Jun 1, 2010, at 10:53 , Stephen Tetley wrote:
> There probably isn't a library to help - I've looked at extracting
> TrueType font metrics myself but abandoned it - TrueType fonts have a
> very complicated file format, and the spec is inadequate to code an

The saner way to do this is to write a binding to freetype2.

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