On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 11:58, Radek Doulík wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-06-05 at 15:58 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote:
> > Here's a first draft of my patch to make gtkhtml print with Pango.
> > There's almost no new code here, it's just moving stuff around,
> > removing code that is no longer needed, and fixing up units.
> >
> > Open questions:
> >
> > - Assuming that we can come up with a final patch, how do we get it
> > into CVS?
> I would like to keep it on separate branch, say gnome-2-8, so that
> HEAD gtkhtml is the one required for HEAD evolution.
OK, we can manage that. I'm really not fond of
HEAD -----------------------------------
\ merge merge merge /merge
\ | | | /
\ ----\/------\/------\/-------/
but it can be done.
You really don't want to use gnome-2-8 as the branch name, how because
that name is the standard name for the real post-2-8 stable branch
name. maybe gnome-2-8-devel?
Note that it would likely be necessary to actually make releases
off the branch for gnome-2.8.
>
> > Would it be possible to branch early for a pre-GNOME-2.8 release
> > and land these changes on HEAD? I think I and/or Dave Malcom
> > could help port changes from stable => HEAD if necessary.
> >
> > In general, I think people would be really excited if they could
> > print Indic languages for GNOME-2.8. (Unfortunately, bidi
> > languages still will be broken.)
> Yes, your gnome-print work is really great news. The gtkhtml still
> needs some work to display RTL languages right, but it's pretty close
> (we need reorder pango items IIRC).
Bidi certainly goes well beyond this patch. I don't think you can
actually do the reordering completely at the PangoItem level ...
if I understand the gtkhtml structure
<text> <image> <text>
Gives you two HTMLText objects not one? But the reordering needs to
be across the whole line of inline objects. (The HTML specs give quite a
bit of detail about how bidi is supposed to work.)
I don't think getting *display* right for RTL is a huge project if there
was was someone interested in doing the work. Editing and selection
is a bit more of a project. (Much of pango-layout.c is helper functions
for bidi editing.)
Regards,
Owen
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