Re: [Freetype] Problem with demos on X11; Text layout question

[Laboratory for Micro Enterprise]

Thanks for your response Werner. Demo problem resolved: I was executing an
older version of ftstring on my Suse Linux system. Should have done ./ftstring,
not plain ftstring! 

Thanks for the ICU pointer. What is the status of your planned Freetype layout
library? Is this being discussed somewhere?

John

On Wed, 04 Apr 2001, you wrote:
> > I'm new to freetype.  I'm using 2.0.1 on X11 (Linux, KDE), playing
> > with the demos. The graphics subsystem doesn't respond to many of
> > the key events used in ftstring.c. I presume this is a known
> > problem, but I haven't found anything about it in the mailing list
> > archive. All I can do is turn hinting on and off, and scale up and
> > down. I'd like to be able to play with the other controls.
> 
> Type `?' to see the available controls.  With Linux under fvwm this
> works OK for me,
> 
> > I'm interested in developing a free xml editor using freetype. Does
> > anyone have any pointers to a free WYSIWYG text layout library or
> > algorithms which might serve as a starting point?
> 
> The FreeType text layout library is not yet done, unfortunately.  For
> complex scripts, the best you can try is Eric Mader's layout engine
> for ICU:
> 
>    http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu
> 
>    The LayoutEngine code can be used without the rest of ICU.  The
>    code is in <icu archive>/source/layout
> 
> 
>      Werner
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