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[Freetype] Re: [Render] OpenType support in Pango
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Werner LEMBERG |
Subject: |
[Freetype] Re: [Render] OpenType support in Pango |
Date: |
Wed, 20 Dec 2000 10:24:00 +0100 (CET) |
> I just checked the beginnings of OpenType support for Pango into
> CVS. This builds on top of the Pango Xrender/Xft code that I've
> been working recently and consists of:
>
> - The OpenType Layout (GPOS/GSUB/GDEF) code from FreeType 1 ported
> to FreeType 2. (Quite a bit of work to port, but much, much
> easier than writing the table-reading code myself.)
You've used the current snapshot, haven't you? 1.3.1 lacks most of
the GPOS code.
> - A simple Arabic shaper (again using some code from the
> FreeType 1 distro) that uses that shapes Arabic using
> the glue layer.
Ditto... IIRC, I've fixed some rules
> It's probably a day or so additional work to get positioning of
> accents working. A really sophisticated use of OpenType like the
> OpenType Indic spec would require considerably more work.
Have you checked ICU from IBM? Maybe they've implemented the Unicode
algorithm already (this is what Microsoft also uses). Porting this to
C shouldn't be too difficult.
Werner
[Freetype] Re: [Render] OpenType support in Pango,
Werner LEMBERG <=
Re: [Freetype] Re: [Render] OpenType support in Pango, Roozbeh Pournader, 2000/12/20