--- Hubert Figuiere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ----- Forwarded message from > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- > > To: Blue Lizard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Pango? > References: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: Havoc Pennington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 25 Apr 2002 23:36:57 -0400 > In-Reply-To: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Lines: 23 > User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > > Blue Lizard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 02:46, Martin Sevior wrote: > > > It contains a lot of what we need but not > everything we need. Nor is it > > > cross platform. > > > > This is an issue I have been thinking about a lot. > The more abiword is > > integrated into gnome/pango (or for that matter > any other platform > > specific thing) the more features get developed on > that, and left out or > > made different on other platforms. Like, if we > use pango for kerning, > > what does win32 do? qnx? solaris/cde users that > dont want no stinking > > gnome build? > > The options as I can figure them out are: > a) Use platform-specific engines, > Pango/Uniscribe/etc. > b) Use one engine on all platforms > > So a) has the problem you described, and b) doesn't. > If Pango is used > as the engine in b) then there is no problem like > the one you mention. > If you go with a), then Pango isn't creating the > problem you mention, > the decision to go with a) is creating it.
I've been led to believe that Pango doesn't yet support many scripts on the Win32 back end. So if we use Pango on Win32 we'll actually lose support for several scripts that "just worked" because Windows implicitly uses Uniscribe if it's there. That said, I'd expect abstracting them to be a pain and from what I've read about ATSUI on OSX it would be a great pain and not without serious problems. Andrew Dunbar. > Havoc > > ----- End forwarded message ----- ===== http://linguaphile.sourceforge.net http://www.abisource.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com
