From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sun Apr 28 2002 - 05:58:31 EDT
On Sat, 27 Apr 2002, Tomas Frydrych wrote:
>
> Having considered the various issues raised in the discussion over
> the past few days, I would like to start pretty much immediately
> working on integrating Pango into the bidi layout engine. Over the
> next 3 month I should have a reasonable amount of time to do this,
> and I expect that by the end of July I should be able to get the Unix
> build working with Pango. After that the time I will be able to
> dedicate to AW will be very limited, but by then most of the
> platform-specific work should do with making the Pango library
> available on the individual platforms.
>
> Just to outline how I envisage it: most of the code will be XP, and
> mostly limited to the drawing routines in fp_TextRun and to
> gr_Graphics classs. Everything to do with Pango will be inside
> #ifdef WITH_PANGO blocks, and will only affect the bidi build (so
> interference with Martin's work on the layout classes should be
> fairly minimal).
>
This sounds very promising Tomas. Is Andrew onboard with this too?
Another issue that we must also clean up in tandem is our *Unix* font
code with the UnixFontManager class sitting between gdkFonts and psFonts.
Can we jump straight to using pangofonts everywhere? Is there someone
willing to work on this code?
Havoc's posts on fontconfig are very convincing. I think we should
definately leverage this work so installing new fonts for abiword is as
easy as windows.
We spend a huge amount of time on the user list and IRC explaining how to
install TTF for abiword.
Cheers
Martin
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