[debian tmail plala or jp: Pango tutorial?]
- From: Noah Levitt <nlevitt columbia edu>
- To: gtk-app-devel-list gnome org
- Cc: Tomohiro KUBOTA <debian tmail plala or jp>
- Subject: [debian tmail plala or jp: Pango tutorial?]
- Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 12:05:41 -0500
----- Forwarded message from Tomohiro KUBOTA <debian tmail plala or jp> -----
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 13:05:52 +0900 (JST)
To: linux-utf8 nl linux org
Subject: Pango tutorial?
From: Tomohiro KUBOTA <debian tmail plala or jp>
Reply-to: linux-utf8 nl linux org
Hi,
I am now interesting in Pango, because it says it
- can output anti-aliased text,
- can handle multilingual text including CJK, bidi, combining,
and Indic complex scripts,
- can choose proper fonts for language (script) of (portions
of) given texts, which means it doesn't force users to configure
font settings to display non-Latin Alphabet texts,
- can use multiple fonts for multilingle given text (one font
for each language/script), which means it can display mixture
of Japanese and Cyrillic when the system has Japanese font and
Cyrillic font (even without a font which has both of japanese
and Cyrillic), and
- is free (meets the Open Source Definition).
However, I have no idea how to use it. Are there any tutorials
of Pango? Or, are there any other text rendering engines which
meet the above conditions?
Concretely, I am now interested in the beta version of xplanet,
which uses FreeType. However, FreeType is a low level renderer
and it doesn't support bidi nor combining. It doesn't take care
of supported codepoint/language/script range of fonts. Thus,
I think FreeType is not suitable for application softwares but
it should be regarded as a basis of other high-level rendering
engines.
Thus, the main developer of xplanet and I are searching a good
text rendering engine and interested in Pango.
---
Tomohiro KUBOTA <kubota debian org>
http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/
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