Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> 
> I did some more testing of superscript/subscript rendering of mixed Greek
> and Latin letters for -dev xcairo, and it appears my above hypothesis is not
> correct.  If I use Greek letters first (at superscript/subscript level 0)
> there is still the same issue; the superscript/subscript Greek letter is
> still off by one in its offset.  I then expanded the test for a combination
> of Greek and Latin letters at superscript/subscript level 1 (see revision
> 10312), and I found a peculiar result; as soon as there is a shift to Greek
> letters (or probably any change in font) at the superscript or subscript
> level, the level interpretation changes by 1 and is uniform from then on
> regardless of whether Latin or Greek letters are used.
> 
> There is no difficulty with this latest version of the example either for
> -dev svg (when viewed by "display") or -dev xwin so I suspect there must
> still be some off-by-one logic error in superscript/subscript level in
> cairo.c that is causing the issues you can see for this example for -dev
> xcairo.  I suggest the best way to debug this is to look carefully at the
> complete generated pangoMarkupString just before it is sent to the
> pango/cairo libraries.  If that seems fine (i.e., you can explain every
> command and there are no changes in rise just before Greek letters occur in
> the superscript/subscript), then this must be a bug in how rise is
> interpreted by the pango/cairo libraries.  But I hope you do see something
> wrong with pangoMarkupString since that is much easier to fix than some
> more fundamental issue with pango/cairo.

This should be fixed in v10317.

-Hazen

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