Re: [Render] OpenType support in Pango



Pablo Saratxaga wrote:

> Kaixo!
>
> On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 07:24:02PM -0800, Brian Stell wrote:
>
> > > This is currently only handling GSUB (contextual variants and
> > > ligatures) though most of the GPOS code is there and just needs to be
> > > hooked up and tested/debugged.
> >
> > Do you intend to draw each (vertically) positioned character with a
> > separate draw call?
>
> Doing that for all glyphs would be quite a waste of ressources (as for most
> of them there wouldn't be really visible differences);

For most languages this is true but I thought that in some Arabic scrips
the glyphs decended as the text moved to the left.

While we would not want to do this for every language I'm curious
what API we will provide to support this.

Brian Stell






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