Rich Felker wrote:
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 02:16:00PM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote:
Hi,
I was thinking of making a multilingual text editor.
I don't get how glyphs are done outside of english.
I've read the Unicode Standard book.
When a paragraph of unicode characters is processed, the glyphs
Rich Felker wrote:
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 02:16:00PM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote:
Hi,
I was thinking of making a multilingual text editor.
I don't get how glyphs are done outside of english.
I've read the Unicode Standard book.
When a paragraph of unicode characters is processed, the glyphs
Russell Shaw wrote:
Rich Felker wrote:
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 02:16:00PM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote:
...
Hi,
I can parse in the gsub tables. I was trying to do the gpos tables,
but the OpenType spec doesn't define ValueRecord in
Single Adjustment Positioning: Format 1:
http
Hi,
I was thinking of making a multilingual text editor.
I don't get how glyphs are done outside of english.
I've read the Unicode Standard book.
When a paragraph of unicode characters is processed, the glyphs
are layed out according to the state contained in the unicode
character sequence.
Rich Felker wrote:
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 02:05:00PM +1000, Russell Shaw wrote:
Subpixel only works on LCDs, which produce ugly output.
I think sub-pixel rendering also works for a crt, but a sudden change
in pixel value (such as the edge of a black square on a white background)
is smeared
Rich Felker wrote:
On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 03:07:09PM +1000, Russell Shaw wrote:
Rich Felker wrote:
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I agree on the total crappiness of current mainstream GUI implementations.
Thanks. It's refreshing to have some support from the non-bloat crowd
in m17n issues. Usually
Rich Felker wrote:
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 03:46:29AM +1000, Russell Shaw wrote:
One possible approach I've considered is having the client application
provide an X font server to serve its own fonts, the sole purpose
being to allow them to be cached on the server side. The same thing
can
Rich Felker wrote:
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I agree on the total crappiness of current mainstream GUI implementations.
A decent X GUI application should run blazingly fast on a 66MHz 486, and only
be a few tens of kB in size. I'd love to have X apps run well on old laptops
with 4MB video ram.
When
