[postgis-devel] postgis_letters in project tree?

[Greg Troxel]

Paul Ramsey <pramsey at cleverelephant.ca> writes:

>> On Jan 27, 2022, at 8:15 AM, Bruce Rindahl <bruce.rindahl at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>   It seems that the extension should come with code to process fonts in
>>   standard representations, rather than preprocessed fonts.  It could
>>   then just use fonts already on the system, and it would be both more
>>   powerful and smaller.
>
> The point it me is not font-making or any of that. The point is a
> mechanism for making shapes that people already understand (letters!)
> and thus make good starting points for visual examples of
> geoprocessing, examples they can run themselves and tweak locally. The
> pretty pictures are compelling and explanatory.
>
> https://www.postgresonline.com/journal/archives/302-Word-Play-with-Spatial-SQL.html
>
> It's to support postgis documentation, not to provide any real-world
> utility. For me having font processing is not the point. I'd also like
> to find a way to embed the font information into the a simple letter
> generation function, so there's no need for a support table, that's
> how unconcerned I am with things like "changing the font" or
> "customizing the letter table". I just want a functional way to
> generate graphical outputs to feed into other functions to show how
> they work, with known shapes as the input.

I don't really want to process fonts either.  Where I was coming from
is:

  remove size from the install

  avoid licensing issues



So: how much bigger does an installed package get?  Are there any
additional dependencies?
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 194 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/postgis-devel/attachments/20220127/a6b8e6b1/attachment.sig>