Re: Tk Unicode is slow

Donal K. Fellows wrote:

> Keith Nash wrote:

>> but it doesn't cache the virtual font metadata, and
>> it doesn't tell us what it is.
>
> It does cache the metadata, within the font as long as the font (or is
> it as long as the font is in use?

I really meant that when the process dies, the virtual font metadata is
lost, and has to be regenerated the next time it is required. Obviously
this has pros as well as cons.

Jeff Hobbs wrote:
> font create myfont -family Courier -size 10 -fallback 0

-fallback 0 would be very useful: one thing it would allow is viewing the
font and its available glyphs in Tcl/Tk - rather than having to use a
system tool.

Keith.

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