[cl-typesetting-devel] Unicode support feedback needed

[Marc Battyani]

Dmitriy Ivanov  <divanov at aha.ru> wrote:
>
> BTW, I would greatly apreciate if the couple of simple loops in (defun
> read-ufm-file), font-metrics.lisp, were rewritten via loop instead of
iter.

No pb.

> MB>> 2) We would better have
> MB>>   (defmacro coerce-to-unicode-string (object) ...)
> MB>> instead of
> MB>>   (coerce thing (unicode-string-type))
> MB>>
> MB>> I have neither disassembled nor profiled but gut feels that coerce is
> MB> rather slow.
> MB>
> MB> Yes. Do you have code for this ?
>
> I've been thinking.

OK.

> MB> Now next major change: Binary format.
> MB> IIRC you already have such a thing for LW ?
>
> Yes, with my di-pdf.lisp, I do write into binary *pdf-stream*. With TTF,
> this should be enhanced.

OK.

> AFAIR, we should also open *page-stream* in binary mode - this needs
further
> elaboration. I am trying to figure out at the moment.

Why would you want to do that ? The content streams are in ASCII normally.
Excepted for the characters in strings but they can be encoded if needed.
The Unicode ones are already encoded.

Marc