Re: pango

>
> Hi,
>
> Theppitak Karoonboonyanan wrote:
>> On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 10:03:28 -0800 (PST), Dom Lachowicz
>> <domlachowicz@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>>If you want AbiWord 2.4 to be released sometime in
>>>2008, please ignore my advice. Pango's goals are and
>>>Pango's reality are two entirely different things.
>>
>> So, is there a plan for better Unicode text rendering
>> in AbiWord? Would you mind educating me what
>> Pango is lacking?
>>
>> In fact, the mentioning of Pango support in 2.4 feature list
>> should have been really good news for complex text users.
>> Although I know that's never a promise, as a user with some
>> programming capability and is willing to contribute, I'd like
>> to learn what I can help to improve support for my language
>> (i.e. Thai).
>>
>
> As Dom said, I am working on a Pango support aiming to get it into the
> 2.4 release. Whether I will succeed in that is a different question;
> debugging and fixing the graphics class will take long time. It will
> probably be there as an optional extra in 2.4, not as the default.

It worth getting at least Roland Kay's (<roland.kay@ox.compsoc.net>) CJK
fixes into the XP class for 2.4? It would considerablly improve things for
*nix and OSX users.

How much more work is needed before his patches can be committed?

Cheers

Martin
Received on Sun Mar 20 17:22:04 2005