Re: About Windows GTK+ BIG5... WINDOWS?!

[Steve Underwood <steveu coppice org>]

Mark Storer wrote:

> I wasn't aware that Pango ran on win32 (or is this just gtk+?).  Wow.  And
> now I've gone from vaguely curious to Genuinely Interested.  So what's
> involved in using the Win32 version of Pango.
>
> See, it just so happens that we're just starting the design phase on a
> multi-lingual layout engine (including vertical type, all the screwy
> japanese layout rules, and so on).  While we've looked at your design docs,
> we didn't think the code would be of any use to us.  I'm pleasantly
> surprised to know better.


Hey. Asian languages don't have any screwy layout rules. Its English you 
are thinking of. Everything in Asian languages is on a nice rectangular 
grid, unless some dumb western typesetting system mucks it up!


> I take it pango.org hasn't been updated in a while... (last status report
> filed almost exactly a year ago).  Is there a more up-to-date source of info
> on the Pango project?
>
> And having poked around pango.org, I see that win32 font support has been in
> the API since Jan-26 (though the api pages themselves aren't dated).


How about adding vertical support to Pango, as a part of your project? I 
believe vertical text support is a long term goal of Owen's. It would be 
wonderful to see it go in soon.

Regards,
Steve