There is one other way to do rotated text, which may be the best way.
This involves directly reading Type1 font files and doing the text
rendering ourselves. This seems to be the approach taken by Raph Levien
in his Gill SVG renderer and the print preview code in the gnome-print
library.
As for what is at the url http://www.daa.com.au/~james/dia-sheet-ns, there
is nothing, and never has been. In the XML namespace spec, it just says
you need some unique identifier for an XML name space, and it recommends
using a URI as the ID as domain names are unique. I don't have a DTD for
either the shape or sheet files, but the .shape and .sheet files
distributed with dia and the objects/custom/README file should be enough
to work out what is and isn't possible with the current custom shape code.
James.
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On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Cyrille Chepelov (home) wrote:
> [rotating X fonts]
> > Well if you can convince Alex of this, I guess it will go in. But it is
> > still very difficult to get arbitrarily rotated text with the current X
> > api's (the work around code would be very ugly), so I don't know how
> > likely it is that it will go in.
>
> Mmmmh, I'm afraid I don't have the time (and GDK wizardry knoweldge) to
> code this for the moment. I'll come back on this when I have something
> worth looking at (such as benchmarks).
>
> --Cyrille
>
> PS: where's now the stuff which used to be at
> http://www.daa.com.au/~james/dia-sheet-ns ?
>
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