Subject: Re: Pango will be a problem (was Re: proposal for gtk port)
From: Vlad Harchev (hvv@hippo.ru)
Date: Thu Jan 04 2001 - 11:06:54 CST
On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
> At 1:07 PM -0500 1/3/01, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
> >But I see the need for this anyway when GTK 2.0 ships with Pango.
> >We'll probably want to use the PangoFont abstraction around X/GDK
> >Fonts and use Pango's shaping routines to draw to our GDK GCs.
> >
> You've got a LOT of other issues to deal with if you are
> thinking about replacing the current paragraph layout engine with
> Pango (which is all Pango really is).
>
> I've spent some time looking at Pango for use in another
> project that I'm working on that involves text layout features, and
> as great as Pango is, it isn't currently designed for use in a "real"
> layout application. You can't currently get enough information out,
> or pass information in. Yes, these are all issues that could be
> solved and addressed - but it means probably doing a lot of that work
> ourselves since they don't need it for Pango in GTK.
Have you informed Pango developers about these limitations? I think they will
be willing to provide this functionality (or at least won't mind about
inclusion of code that adresses these issues).
>
> LDR
> --
Best regards,
-Vlad
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