Ed Trager wrote: > Hi, Egil, > > I and others have thought of this before too. I think someone > connected to SIL's Graphite project worked on something along these > lines in order to support complex layout scripts like Burmese in the > current crop of SVG-aware but Burmese-not-aware browsers.
TTBOMK that would be Keith Stribley (who was at the last LGM/TextLayoutMeeting): More details over here: http://thanlwinsoft.org/ThanLwinSoft/MyanmarUnicode/WebDevelopers/myWebEgSvg.php I believe the code is in the Graphite svn repository. Ah, just saw that Daniel Glassey forwarded the info to the Graphite mailing-list. Keith will probably get in touch. > To write a server-side program that generates a bitmap image of text > is fairly simple. To write a server-side program that generates the > SVG snippets instead is more work. However such an SVG curve > generator would be pretty cool because then you could scale the text > dynamically on the client side, change colors using CSS, and generally > have a lot of fun playing around with the SVG outlines directly on the > client side. So it would be quite cool if someone did it. > > -- Ed BTW, Ed, thanks again for the great work done on the server-side font analysis + input method software! Cheers, -- Nicolas Spalinger, NRSI volunteer Debian/Ubuntu font team / OpenFontLibrary http://planet.open-fonts.org
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