15:56:13Shinmera|3b|: The Lisp version of the msdf generator is more urgent than thought. The msdf-bmfont-xml thing fails utterly on many unicode symbols, just generating boxes instead.
16:24:25SAL9000that sounds like a fun project... must not pick up more projects that I'll never have time for... :-P
16:25:03ShinmeraI really wish I had more money to throw at people to do this stuff
16:27:25SAL9000I assume you already tried https://github.com/Chlumsky/msdfgen ?
16:27:25Colleengithub.com/Chlumsky/msdfgen Website (HTML), Title: GitHub - Chlumsky/msdfgen: Multi-channel signed distance field generator
16:27:59Shinmerathat one has multiple issues, iirc. I've been using a JS alternative, but that has the above caveat.
16:29:20ShinmeraWell, TTF is weird, OTF is weird, but then also by committee
16:29:34Shinmeraso OTF parsing and interpretation is super hard and we don't even have a lib for that yet
16:29:42Shinmerascymtym has done some work for that but it's far from done.
16:30:51SAL9000at one point I needed a really quick lines-only vector font hack for work... so I pulled out inkscape, wrote out the alphabet, did text-to-path and then a python script which sampled the paths at a given interval
16:30:58SAL9000horrific hack but I suspect it's still in use, lol