Shoesters:
Here's a snip of Shoeage that displays one of Pango's sample text files, in
Tamil:
tamility = File.read(File.expand_path(
'~/tools/pango-1.19.3/pango-view/test-tamil.txt'))
Shoes.app :height => 500, :width => 450 do
background rgb(55, 77, 55)
stack :margin => 10 do
para tamility, :stroke => white
end
end
Tamil is an awesome cursive script, full of twisty swirly knobby letters that
look like a rigger's final exam.
To learn some Shoe, lets rotate it 45 degrees. (I'm sure a Tamil could still
read it!) And the Shoe source has a 'rotate' hook.
So how does the rotate method work? I tried it before, around, and after that
para, but the letters remain firmly horizontal.
(Along the way, I note that neither of these lines throw errors:
para tamility, :stroke => white, :foo => 42
para tamility, :stroke => white, :rotate => 45
(As errors are the "stick" side of programmers' positive reinforcement,
shouldn't Shoes double check all its arguments against their Cairo & Pango
properties?
(I got 'curious', btw...)
--
Phlip
