Re: Documentation on creating a Pango module

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Emil Soleyman-Zomalan <emil79 uclink berkeley edu> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to take a chance at creating a Syriac module/shaper for pango.
> I looked through the Arabic and Hebrew module source code and found it
> to be somewhat daunting. My programming experience is limited to shell, 
> perl, and now C. 
> 
> I can make the necessary time commitments to the project and at the same
> time improve my programming skills. I would like to know whether any
> (extensive) documentation is available regarding modules?

Unfortunately, there is no documentation on writing modules. :-(.

I would expect Syriac modules to follow the pattern of Arabic fairly
closely, but certainly the Arabic modules are by no means the simplest
code. 

The Thai module was originally written to be a nice simple example,
but then people actually fixed it to be useable for displaying Thai...

If you have particular questions, I'd be more than happy to answer
them on this list.

Regards,
                                        Owen