Re: Improved pango engine modules/hebrew/hebrew-x.c

[Dov Grobgeld <dov Orbotech COM>]

Thanks. It was quite easy to build on the work that you had already
done. Did you get the patch that Tzafrir Cohen forwarded to the list?

Dov

On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 10:42:48AM -0700, Chookij Vanatham wrote:
> 
> Hi Dov,
> 
> I'm glad that, at least, there is another person helping to have this
> done better.
> 
> I haven't seen the attachment for the patch and haven't seen
> any updated in CVS.
> 
> Could you send it again ?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Chookij V.
> 
> 
> 
> ] Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 21:26:31 +0000 (IDT)
> ] From: dov imagic weizmann ac il
> ] Subject: Improved pango engine modules/hebrew/hebrew-x.c
> ] To: gtk-i18n-list gnome org
> ] Cc: ivrix-discuss ivrix org il
> ] I have finally got around to having a look at the Pango Hebrew
> ] renderer and I have entered various heuristics that makes the
> ] positioning of vowel punctuation much more intelligent. The 
> ] earlier version put several points in the wrong places.
> ] 
> ] I am including both a patch for modules/hebrew/hebrew-x.c as
> ] well as a screenshot showing the first two verses of the Bible,
> ] rendered with the Microsoft Tahoma font.
> ] 
> ] As regards to font I had to do the following in order to use it:
> ] 
> ] * The program ttmkfdir does not create any "iso10646-1" entries.
> ]   Thus I had to manually enter the fonts.dir directory that
> ]   holds the M$ truetype fonts and enter lines like the following:
> ] 
> ]    tahoma.ttf -microsoft-Tahoma-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso10646-1
> ] 
> ] And as always when I finally get around to understanding how to do
> ] something within Gtk/Gnome etc, (which takes me some time) I stand in
> ] awe and admiration for the great structure and design created by
> ] Owen Taylor. :-)
> ] 
> ] Regards,
> ] Dov
> ] 
> ] 
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