ah, Compose has this. thanks.
On Sunday, 13 September 2015 14:20:01 UTC-3, Andreas Lobinger wrote: > > Hello colleague, > > 1 - you miss that actually Cairo.jl defines text setting with the 'toy' > interface and setting via pangocairo. text uses a pango layout, set_text > uses the cairo-only interface. I think used both already and fed fontfiles > into pango. > 2 - maybe/maybe not. In general i'd rather split into pure Cairo (with > only the toy interface) and a full Pango implementation which is at the > moment partially in Cairo and (interestingly) in Compose.jl > 2a - why? If you counter library functions, just keep the name. If you > build layers on top of it, it should be reasonably clear. > If you change something in Cairo.jl be aware that is in the plotting world > (Gadfly and similar) a rather heavy dependency. They will not like if you > change names of current functions without reason. > > 2b+c You could do a work-in-progress (put WIP into the name) pull request, > so people can comment and even try. > >
