> FWIW I had an ultra quick look at Pango some months ago. It does line > rendering pretty much like AbiWord's backend. It does need a more > powerfull formatter though (which was on the TODO list back then) for > us to be able to use it. It's going to take some work to graft it onto > the AbiWord backend though...
We should also consider using the IBM library that is used by Mozilla, called ICU (international components for Unicode). It is released under the X Licence, which is GPL compatible, and those interested will find more info at http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/icu/project/index.html Tomas
