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

[Chookij Vanatham <chookij thestork eng Sun COM>]

Hi Dov,

Yeap!! I got it. I'll check it out. Will take some to rebuild all gtk+/pango
again. hopefully, won't see a lot of difficulties.... :)

Chookij V.


] Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 14:52:07 +0300
] From: Dov Grobgeld <dov Orbotech COM>
] Subject: Re: Improved pango engine modules/hebrew/hebrew-x.c
] To: Chookij Vanatham Eng Sun COM
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] 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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