Hi,
I would like to know if someone works on opentype layout integration in Scribus. If not, as an "enthusiast", I began to write some code to provide an otlayout class -info and process. At first I tried with libotf but I couldn't perform "kern" lookup (but other features _seem_ to work well) and still wonder why. Consequently, I looked for another implementation of "otlayout": -ICU, it's IBM stuff and surrounded by tons of words, so I didn't understand clearly what is it; -FT1 otlayout : --Pango, depends of Glib (but it's got a good integration with Cairo); --Qt, it would be great if someone could figure how to access otlayout through Qt Hierarchy or at least if it's possible; --HarfBuzz cvs, which seems to be the most up to date version of FT1 otlayout (?). I took the latter, and, after minor modifications and a new makefile, obtained a libotlayout.so. I now work on a more usefull otlayoutengine class, sort of OT_String class. Finally, my problems: 1. Is Scribus team interested in such help? 2. Is there an easy way to insert a "word rendering" step in Scribus layout engine in order to deviate from normal process in case of OT font? 3. If 1 and 2, a lot of questions... -- Pierre Marchand JabberId : capparis at im.apinc.org Mar 7 14:31:20 localhost imapd: LOGIN, user=pierre, ip=[::ffff:127.0.0.1], protocol=IMAP
