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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 1995
Filed:
May. 12, 1992
David G Opstad, Mountain View, CA (US);
Eric R Mader, Mountain View, CA (US);
Apple Computer, Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A computer system for rendering text is provided. A keyboard is used to enter characters into the computer system. A character code corresponding to each entered character is generated. A particular font is chosen from a font table stored in memory. The font table contains a number of different fonts, with each font having a number of glyph indexes corresponding to a number of different glyphs. A character can have a plurality of different glyph indexes for a particular font. A processor maps the character code to a glyph index according to the selected font and later processes the glyph index. The glyph corresponding to the processed glyph index is then displayed.