Arun Sharma wrote:
>
> While we're trying to figure out the merits of client side vs server
> side font rendering implementation, I'd like to understand the
> development plans for client side support for complex scripts in X.
>
> Is there a plan to build a client side font rendering library that's
> capable of supporting complex scripts and that will be a part of the
> base X distribution ? I really think that font rendering framework
> is basic functionality that should be a part of X, without which it'd
> be incomplete.
This is a very good observation:
What should the text APIs look like?
> Is ST a good candidate for such an API?
I've taken a quick look at it and they appear to be trying to
think top down. I know that Sun has engineers looking at CTL
so I imagine they are at least aware of it.
It appears to me that we all have some studying to do.
> when we have it all figured out, we don't have to rewrite the font
> handling parts of Qt, gtk or Motif.
Or perhaps we can collect the best parts into a public library.
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Brian Stell
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