<div dir="ltr">Looks good. Let me play with my python script to see if I can generate the function directly with a different font file.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 1:38 PM Paul Ramsey <<a href="mailto:pramsey@cleverelephant.ca">pramsey@cleverelephant.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Here's the two functions. I think putting these into the default postgis extension makes sense, they are small and then we have letter magic available for doco etc wherever we want.<br>
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> On Jan 27, 2022, at 10:32 AM, Paul Ramsey <<a href="mailto:pramsey@cleverelephant.ca" target="_blank">pramsey@cleverelephant.ca</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Using base64 encoded twkb, i can get the letters set down to a 22K function. So, I think maybe this just goes into the main postgis extension. (Assuming you're OK with my minimalist anglo no-special-font handling approach.)<br>
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>> On Jan 27, 2022, at 9:29 AM, Martin Davis <<a href="mailto:mtnclimb@gmail.com" target="_blank">mtnclimb@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 9:03 AM Paul Ramsey <<a href="mailto:pramsey@cleverelephant.ca" target="_blank">pramsey@cleverelephant.ca</a>> wrote:<br>
>> I'm thinking of converting the letter/font table into a function with a fixed collection of letters, so that an install involves just two functions ST_GeomFromLetter(letter) and ST_GeomFromWord(text). ST_GeomFromLetter can be expanded over time to include additional letters for other language charsets. That matches the capabilities of the system to the needs.<br>
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>> That sounds like the simplest approach. Nice to avoid needing a table. <br>
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