On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 03:25, Carsten Haitzler wrote: > On 23 Mar 2003 12:27:03 +0100 Klaas Bosteels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > babbled: > > > Op zo 23-03-2003, om 03:40 schreef Carsten Haitzler: > > > Etox: > > > > > > Currently Etox's fate is "unknown". It's a good library and idea. > > > Abstracting higher-level text formatting, flowing etc. into a library and > > > API is good, but where exactly Etox will head from here, we don't know. > > Well we should know, imo. There still is quite a lot of work to be done > > on Etox, but nobody is going to work on it as long as it isn't clear if > > it'll be used in the future. Personally, I think it'd be better to move > > (parts of) Etox functionally into evas.. > > etox is meant to be a lot more complex than evas could/would/should do. > basically its mean t to do entire page formatting with paragraphs, columns, text > wrapping/flowing around objects/obstacles, alignment, change of font size, font, > style, color, embed "links" etc. basically what the DOX code did in e16 - and > more, but in a library so it can be used where you need complex text handling. This sounds like a Word Processor library. So are we actually going to see a Wordprocessor as 'test_tool' for Etox? Or even better a Desktop Publishing test etox tool?
> > > > Lower level than Etox, Estyle just does text string style handling, and > > > config parsing. It's fate is also currently unknown. > > Estyle is more or less finished, afaik, so we could just leave it there > > and use it "under the hood" in Etox for now (if we decide to keep Etox). > > However, text-styles really should be handled by evas at some point, > > imo.. > > yup. leave it for now :) reg. moritz ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: ValueWeb: Dedicated Hosting for just $79/mo with 500 GB of bandwidth! No other company gives more support or power for your dedicated server http://click.atdmt.com/AFF/go/sdnxxaff00300020aff/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
