--- Martin Sevior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, 27 Apr 2002, Tomas Frydrych wrote: > > > > > Having considered the various issues raised in the > discussion over > > the past few days, I would like to start pretty > much immediately > > working on integrating Pango into the bidi layout > engine. Over the > > next 3 month I should have a reasonable amount of > time to do this, > > and I expect that by the end of July I should be > able to get the Unix > > build working with Pango. After that the time I > will be able to > > dedicate to AW will be very limited, but by then > most of the > > platform-specific work should do with making the > Pango library > > available on the individual platforms. > > > > Just to outline how I envisage it: most of the > code will be XP, and > > mostly limited to the drawing routines in > fp_TextRun and to > > gr_Graphics classs. Everything to do with Pango > will be inside > > #ifdef WITH_PANGO blocks, and will only affect the > bidi build (so > > interference with Martin's work on the layout > classes should be > > fairly minimal). > > > > This sounds very promising Tomas. Is Andrew onboard > with this too?
I think we have pretty much the same ideas so yes but of course I'm still looking for a job and have no computer in the meantime. I've been thinking of moving back to my Dad's where I will be able to hack AbiWord full-time while unemployed but I haven't decided if that's my best career path yet (: > Another issue that we must also clean up in tandem > is our *Unix* font > code with the UnixFontManager class sitting between > gdkFonts and psFonts. > > Can we jump straight to using pangofonts everywhere? > Is there someone > willing to work on this code? > > Havoc's posts on fontconfig are very convincing. I > think we should > definately leverage this work so installing new > fonts for abiword is as > easy as windows. It still seems to me from what I've been reading that if we go fully Pango at this point that we won't have printing. Given that I think the bidi/pango build is going to be a development only branch for some time that allows both AbiWord and Pango to evolve. This worries me because it means extremely few people will be testing it ): Andrew Dunbar. > We spend a huge amount of time on the user list and > IRC explaining how to > install TTF for abiword. > > Cheers > > Martin > > ===== 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
