diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 8109053..de86f03 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ Drop-in replacement for Allegro_TTF that contains libschrift, instead of using F
 
 It is 100% API compatible with the vanilla TrueType addon. Compile Allegro with these files inside of `/addons/ttf`.
 
+![Comparison between FreeType2 and schrift when running Allegro's ex_ttf demo](comparison.png)
+
 Pros:
 - It doesn't require NT 6 kernel calls
 - It doesn't dynamically link against hundreds of thousands of lines of ugly corporate-backed C code you can't read
@@ -14,4 +16,6 @@ Caveats:
 - The entire caching system is gone, fonts are baked to textures immediately and no further. This makes supporting some languages with this add-on inconvenient, or impossible.  
 If your usecase doesn't need every fancy rendering feature and can use schrift, you probably aren't supporting enough characters and languages to need on-the-fly caching, so we consider this an acceptable tradeoff.
     - The `cache_text` setting in allegro5.cfg is now reused to determine what glyphs can be rendered at all. `skip_cache_misses` has no effect.  
-    When `cache_text` is undefined, the English and Romance alphabets will be generated by default.
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+    When `cache_text` is undefined, the [Latin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII), [Germanic, and Romance](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_Extended-A) alphabets will be generated by default. (not necessarily 32 - 255)
+    - **TODO** Alternatively, the developer can force a custom range of unicode characters to be generated using a new parameter in the `al_load_ttf_font` function.
+- Kerning, per-character advance and offsets, and other features which are exposed by libschrift are not currently implemented, but doing so is possible. See the above comparison screenshot.
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diff --git a/allegro5/internal/aintern_ttf_cfg.h.cmake b/allegro5/internal/aintern_ttf_cfg.h.cmake
deleted file mode 100644
index 48072f2..0000000
--- a/allegro5/internal/aintern_ttf_cfg.h.cmake
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-#cmakedefine ALLEGRO_CFG_TTF_FREETYPE
diff --git a/allegro_schrift.c b/allegro_schrift.c
index d0179df..f3c2e00 100644
--- a/allegro_schrift.c
+++ b/allegro_schrift.c
@@ -24,6 +24,9 @@ ALLEGRO_DEBUG_CHANNEL("font")
 #define delimit_blue  (unsigned)255
 #define delimit_alpha (unsigned)255
 #define delimit_color al_map_rgba(delimit_red, delimit_green, delimit_blue, delimit_alpha)
+#define wmax (int32_t)2048 // fixed atlas width - 1024 or 2048 are ideal depending on font size
+// height is automatically adjusted in powers of two
+// todo we should expand this less when the card supports npot textures
 
 /* globals */
 static bool ttf_inited;
@@ -66,7 +69,8 @@ ALLEGRO_FONT *al_load_ttf_font_f(ALLEGRO_FILE *file,
       al_get_config_value(system_cfg, "ttf", "cache_text");
 		if (!cache_text_str) {
 			ALLEGRO_ERROR("No characters defined in cache_text! Using defaults\n");
-			cache_text_str = " abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789.,!?/()@#$%^&*-_=+<>~`\u007F";
+			// todo probably should just store a list of ranges instead, maybe even ditch the config var entirely
+			cache_text_str = " abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789.,!?/()@#$%^&*-_=+<>~`\u007FĀāĂ㥹ĆćĈĉĊċČčĎďĐđĒēĔĕĖėĘęĚěĜĝĞğĠġĢģĤĥĦħĨĩĪīĬĭĮįİıIJijĴĵĶķĸĹĺĻļĽľĿŀŁłŃńŅņŇňʼnŊŋŌōŎŏŐőŒœŔŕŖŗŘřŚśŜŝŞşŠšŢţŤťŦŧŨũŪūŬŭŮůŰűŲųŴŵŶŷŸŹźŻżŽžſ";
 		}
 
 		// read font file
@@ -89,7 +93,6 @@ ALLEGRO_FONT *al_load_ttf_font_f(ALLEGRO_FILE *file,
 		}
 
 		// convert glyphs into textures
-		#define wmax (int32_t)1024
 		int32_t woff = 1, hoff = 1, hmax = 128; // signed to calculate difference at texture edges
 		gtex = al_create_bitmap(wmax, hmax);
 		al_set_target_bitmap(gtex);
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