Subject: Re: Indic support
From: Arun (am_in_00@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Oct 23 2001 - 08:24:31 CDT
> > > to Pango after 1.0 but Malayalam is already
> > possible
> >
> > So it will take some more time isnt it :( ?
>
> Yes it's true. Because Indic rendering is so
> complicated the main developers want Pango to do the
> hard work for us.
ok, waiting for developer release of abiword with pango support.
> On Windows 2000 and up, no special input is needed.
> You simply install the Indian languages you want and
> they come with fonts and keymaps. Abi also has no
> special code for rendering Indic fonts since Windows's
> font rendering APIs do all this for you automatically.
> At least on Windows 2000 and up. There were problems
> though, when selecting text since Abi didn't know
> about ligatures at that time and assumed every
> character was a certain number of pixels wide. These
> are the sort of problems that need specific bug
> reports.
yes, got the idea. But no way i can help with windows.
> >
> > Sure, I can help with may be few south indian
> > languages.
> > BTW i have only GNU/Linux and Free BSD system here.
>
> Are you a programmer? Do you know much about Pango
> and/or OpenType/FreeType? Sooner or later we need
> people who know these so we can begin to think about
> how to work with them.
I am a programmer and had tried something with pango.
(renderer for malayalam with bitmapped fonts)
Not an expert. I am now looking into OpenType (to create a
font for my language and l10n Free Software).
> Hope this is some little help.
yes, it was.
Regards,
Arun.
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