Subject: Pango will be a problem (was Re: proposal for gtk port)
From: Leonard Rosenthol (leonardr@lazerware.com)
Date: Thu Jan 04 2001 - 11:21:44 CST
At 1:07 PM -0500 1/3/01, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
>But I see the need for this anyway when GTK 2.0 ships with Pango.
>We'll probably want to use the PangoFont abstraction around X/GDK
>Fonts and use Pango's shaping routines to draw to our GDK GCs.
>
You've got a LOT of other issues to deal with if you are
thinking about replacing the current paragraph layout engine with
Pango (which is all Pango really is).
I've spent some time looking at Pango for use in another
project that I'm working on that involves text layout features, and
as great as Pango is, it isn't currently designed for use in a "real"
layout application. You can't currently get enough information out,
or pass information in. Yes, these are all issues that could be
solved and addressed - but it means probably doing a lot of that work
ourselves since they don't need it for Pango in GTK.
LDR
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