Is an external dependency like http://www.freetype.org/ completely out of the question?

On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 4:20 AM, Bert Freudenberg <bert@freudenbergs.de> wrote:

On 25.04.2009, at 18:22, John M McIntosh wrote:

On 25-Apr-09, at 2:02 AM, Michael Rueger wrote:

- fractional position rendering (rendering an anti-aliased glyph onto
a fractional pixel position)

You both are seriously overestimating the sophistication of Squeak's standard text rendering ;)

It all derives from bitmap fonts, each glyph basically is a Form, and they are simply blitted one after the other onto the screen. No sub-pixel positioning, no kerning. The only thing that's different for TrueType fonts is how the forms are generated.