From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Jun 25 2002 - 23:10:42 EDT
--- Joaquin Cuenca Abela <e98cuenc@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> --- Tomas Frydrych <tomas@frydrych.uklinux.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > From the XP point of view the bigest issue is
> > getting Pango/Glib2
> > available on the non-*nix platforms, and as no-one
> > seems to be
> > looking into this, it could take years :-(.
>
> Tomas, if nobody else steps here (Andrew?), I will
> try to keep the win32 pango backend up to date with
> the unix one.
I *so* want to work on it! It's just that I can't
seem
to find a job here in Perth. I underestimated the
poor
state of the tech industry in this state. I keep
thinking of giving up and moving back to the eastern
states but I'm also more worried in this
post-dot-bomb-era about not having a degree. I need a
job to be able to buy a computer and get an ISP ):
I know Tomas is strongly against it and I'm sure he
has good technical reasons for it, but I would still
like AbiWord to be able to work with any of the
FreeType backends in a generic way - even to work with
Uniscribe instead. I'd be investigating and
experimenting in that area if I did have a machine.
But this has all been discusses so I don't want to
start it all up again now that we have such good work
going on in both Xft and Pango.
> But I will not start working on that until we start
> regularly using the pango backend (I guess that it
> means just after 1.2).
>
> I will be very happy if somebody else did the work,
> as
> I was hopping to do some work on typographic issues
> after the Xft work. In the order, I'm hopping for:
> WYSIWYG, remplacing our line justification by the
> total-fit one (the same algorithm that Knuth did for
> TeX), adding (copying it from TeX or somebody else)
> a
> word breaker (possibly integrate it in pango),
> kerning
> pairs, margin kernings, and investigate font
> expansion, interletter spacing and rivers detection.
It would be neat if all or any of these things could
be made to work in a generic fashion to use Pango or
not, depending on what is built in, IMHO.
Andrew Dunbar.
> Cheers,
>
>
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