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From: cargo@TARDIS.CRAY.COM (David S. Cargo)
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Subject: Re:  table initialization
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"You might want to think about storing your character set and font widths
in an external file, so that if the values (i.e., font) change, you won't
have to change your program."

As a matter of fact, I will start by reading the Adobe Font Metrics file
to get the initial values.  I could either use them directly, or have
the program write initialization code to be used by another program.
It's a matter of early or late binding in effect.  If you think that
ord(s) is fast relative to hashing, I'll probably go that way.

david snail