Re: Pango Status Report, 4 Apr 2000

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Petr Tomasek <tomasek@etf.cuni.cz> writes:

> Hi!
> 
> I'm new to this list, so please, don't beat me...
> I would like to know, whether someone is working on
> high-quality hebrew support (with _ALL_ the vocalization and
> accentation signs, hebrew can use). 
> I'd like to help on this (well, maybe not next three weeks,
> but as soon as I'll free for some time). 

As far as I know, nobody is working on this.

What this would essentially consist of is creating a separate "shaper"
module for Hebrew - right now, Hebrew is just using the generic
shaper.

It may be a bit challenging to get the interactions between
all the different marks right using X fonts, but the architecture
of Pango should certainly be sufficient.

With some luck, by the time you get some free time to work on
this, I should have found some free time to document how
to write a shaper.

Regards,
                                        Owen