Hi Herbert, On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 16:45, Herbert Duerr <du...@sun.com> wrote: > Probably. > > Topics that everybody yawned at more than once got the priority "we needed > that yesterday"! On the other hand I also saw > http://fontfeed.com/archives/ipad-typography/ where it shows that top-notch > typography is not a requirement even for the most successful appliance used > by many graphic designers, artists and other creative people that usually > have good style as a major goal.
That is a good example of typography getting the back seat treatment which has sadly become the norm. It is encouraging to see that Windows, OS X and Linux either have or are working on high quality text APIs. >>> With OOo's Aqua port moving from ATSU to CoreText and CoreText supporting >>> optional typographic features the Aqua port is likely to be the spearhead >>> of >>> this effort. >> >> That is interesting. Are there plans to use DirectWrite in the Windows >> version? > > Not yet. On Windows the next typography step is probably doing issue > #i112466#. I don't yet know how OOo renderrs text in detail but I believe that it would be possible and not too complicated to use DirectWrite/Direct2D just for rendering. >>> A related topic for all platforms is GPOS-kerning (#i31764#): In one way >>> is >>> simpler, because the UI, the document-spec and application layer support >>> is >>> already there, in the other way it is also very challenging because the >>> layout of existing document must not change (e.g. because a font only has >>> classic kerning and a layout engine only supports GPOS kerning or because >>> the layout depends on the feature "CJK kerning"). >> >> I suppose that if the engine supported both it could have plain >> kerning as default if the font has it. Some of the newer fonts come >> with only GPOS kerning and the engine would use that. Could something >> like that work? > > Yes, that is the plan how it will look to the upper layers. Whether the > system layout engines do it this way too reliably is the other question. > >> This is something I would like to work on. I really like typography >> and would like to see better support for it in OOo. > > Good! Could I interest you in working in the WriterEngine and EditEngine on > #i108684#? > > Or are you more into system-level code? What is your prefered platform? WIN, > UNX or MAC? > If WIN could I interest you in #i112466#? > If UNX could I interest you in providing the optional features through ICU? I'd like to take on #i112466#. Would that be appropriate in scope for a 3 moth internship? Before my original mail here I read about HarfBuzz which is probably what someone working on providing OT features on linux through ICU should use but I'm not sure if the APIs are finalized. Regards, Miloš --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@gsl.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@gsl.openoffice.org
