question about the bfd cursor description

[Michal Srb]

On Tuesday 22 of May 2012 13:41:50 Vincent Torri wrote:
> but i would like to know the meaning of the other fields (ENCODING
> (but i think that this field is useless for me), SWIDTH, DWIDTH and
> BBX). I think that BBX is for the hot point but i don't know how it is
> computed from these values.

Hi, check wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyph_Bitmap_Distribution_Format

specification:
http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/font/5005.BDF_Spec.pdf

and X.org implementation:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXfont/tree/src/bitmap/bdfread.c

Michal