TTF is a crazy format, but I'm very much enjoying writing the VM for it, hopefully If I make it good enough I can integrate it into stb_truetype, no more blurry text. Dear Imgui UI's should look a lot nicer if I get this done.
@Sharlock93 Not that I would discourage you from the NIH route for the sake of learning but I don't see much point in going out of your way to avoid freetype if the goal is reference-quality TTF/OTF font rendering.
@Sharlock93 Right, I definitely support that approach in that circumstance. Incidentally, I'm surprised there aren't more abstraction libraries in the C world in this vein: https://github.com/servo/font-kit. I think all the major web browsers defer to the default font renderer for the system they are on in order to have a consistent look and feel to font rendering across apps, and it means you can depend on pre-installed DLLs/SOs.
@pervognsen Interesting, I'm not sure tbh my best "guess" would be that people gave up "cross platform" libraries in C due to "maintenance" and different compiler inconsistency? not even sure I believe that fully but that is my best guess.
@Sharlock93 Yeah, dunno. I've written a simpler, more case-specific version of this kind of layer once before but the only other time I've seen a reusable portability layer in the C/C++ world is in JUCE's font rendering but JUCE is a mega-framework and the components aren't really separable: https://github.com/juce-framework/JUCE
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