Re: long-awaited math in abiword coming?

From: Dom Lachowicz (domlachowicz@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Jul 09 2003 - 16:09:52 EDT

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    > yes, that would be very useful. So you're implicitly
    > saying that AbiWord
    > can act as both a container and containee (w.r.t.
    > bonobo architecture).

    We will strive for this past our 2.0 release. But for
    now, we can only be a containee.
     
    > Well, it hasn't been released yet, but there already
    > is a port of
    > gtkmathview to GTK2. To be honest, the port is
    > partial. My first plan
    > was to switch to pango rendering completely, but
    > math fonts have their
    > own encoding and glyphs, so that a custom mapping
    > Unicode->glyph index
    > has to be implemented anyway. Right now the GTK2
    > port still uses some
    > deprecated APIs to render glyphs on the drawing
    > area. What you're saying
    > here is that I should implement a rendering system
    > based on Xft2
    > directly, which should be more or less trivial as
    > you pointed out. At
    > the same time, I'm not sure how fontconfig can be of
    > any help...

    It doesn't matter so much how you print the pretty
    symbols on the screen, so long as you do it, and do it
    well :)
     
    Dom

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