Is an external dependency like http://www.freetype.org/ completely out of the question?
You both are seriously overestimating the sophistication of Squeak's standard text rendering ;)
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)
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.