I’m just trying to understand what is this about for now. Regards, Khaled
On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 07:18:28AM +1100, Chris Sherlock wrote: > This does seem a bit odd… unless we want to make AFM parsing cross-platform? > > The only thing that I’m aware implements AFM parsing is > PrintFontManager, which is only used by Unix-based platforms. > > Could we get some clarification around this? > > Oh, and also - Khaled, once this is clarified why don’t you go for the > tender? I can’t think of anyone I’d more highly recommend than > yourself, and I’m reasonably certain you have some good ideas around > how to fix the SalLayout mess... certainly you have the technical > expertise and experience to tackle this. > > Just a suggestion :-) > > Chris > > > On 1 Feb 2016, at 9:35 PM, Khaled Hosny <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I just came across this tender [1] and it is not quite clear to me what > > is it about. Am I right in thinking this is about having a shared > > cross-platform implementation of VCL text layout API (the dreaded > > SalLayout et all)? If so I don’t understand what AFM stuff is doing here > > since we don’t use any of this AFM stuff during text layout as far as I > > can know and I don’t see how it can even be reused for such a task. > > > > 1. > > https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2015/12/16/tender-for-cross-platform-fontshaping-stubs-for-layout-tests-201512-05/ > > > > Regards, > > Khaled > > _______________________________________________ > > LibreOffice mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
