This directory contains several extensions to the core engine.

An extension is a separately  compilable unit which can be linked by
a client application to add new functionalities to the engine.

There  are two  kinds  of extensions:  an  "API extension"  provides
clients with new APIs to  access internal engine structures or data,
while an  "engine extension" implements  new TrueType data  or table
management.

This directory contains the following:

  ftxcmap:  An API extension to iterate over cmaps.

  ftxgasp:  A simple API extension which returns the TrueType "gasp"
            table to client applications, when found in a font file.
            Though this table is  always loaded by the engine, there
            is no function in the core API to access it.  The reason
            is simple:  to demonstrate  a simple API  extension with
            "ftxgasp"!

  ftxkern:  This engine  extension is  used to access  kerning data,
            when available in a  font file.  Note that it implements
            on-the-fly  loading and  retrieving  of kerning  tables.
            However, it  doesn't interpret or process  the data, and
            client  applications  should  use  it according  to  the
            TrueType specification.

  ftxpost:  An engine  extension to load the  PostScript glyph names
            of the  `post' table.   See the `ftzoom'  program for an
            example how to use it.

  ftxwidth: A simple  extension used to load the  widths and heights
            of  a given  range of  glyphs  in a  face.  Results  are
            expressed in  unscaled font units.  This  is required by
            the  latest version of  the FreeType/2  DLL to  speed up
            font loading in the  GRE (the OS/2 GRaphics Engine).  It
            can be used by other applications though...

  ftxerr18: This extension  simply converts a  TrueType engine error
            code into  a corresponding string  describing the error.
            It is  useful if you intend  to write a  package for end
            users and  want to  give them not  "Error code  135" but
            "OS/2  table   missing".   See  docs/errstr.txt   for  a
            description  how to use  it (really  simple!).  ftxerr18
            supports localization  of error strings  (that is: error
            strings  are  automatically  translated  into  supported
            languages)  using  gettext().   See docs/i18n.txt  about
            using gettext.

  ftxopen,
  ftxgsub,
  ftxgpos:  This is  experimental stuff  for TrueType Open  support!
            Please ignore it or help debugging :-)


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