fontconvert: fractional point support for fine-grained font size control #436
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This adds fine-grained control over font size by allowing specifying size in the 26.6 fractional points (1/64 pt). This can be achieved by multiplying size by 64 and adding
f
at the end of the size argument. E.g., size11
and704f
generate the same glyphs.Like in other cases of
fontconvert
– needs to be used responsibly. No real error checking is performed.Checking backward compatibility (vs
1.11.19
) – following command outputs the same:The glyph generation is not influenced. The only difference between
11
and704f
are symbol names: