Re: Displaying text as a vertical marquee

["Matt Hoosier" <mwhoosier gmail com>]

Yes, I agree with all those concerns. Just trying to look for the
"least bad" way to do this :)

On 7/17/06, David Nečas (Yeti) <yeti physics muni cz> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 03:09:37PM -0500, Matt Hoosier wrote:
> > This is occurring inside of a widget which auto-responds to locale
> > changes. I'd hoped to avoid iterating across (and reformatting) the
> > input whenever a set_text() call occurs.
>
> Well, I don't know anything that could do the right thing
> for Hindi, Hebrew, Arabic, etc.  In fact I don't know what
> the right thing is for most world languages.  But from the
> little I know, if Pango (or some other lib) does not provide
> routines for breaking text to individual graphems that make
> sense placed vertically, this will be hard.  Unless the
> strings to display are constant and can be broken by
> translators -- and then you will have the formatting
> embedded and thus no need to worry about iterations.
>
> Yeti
>
>
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