Re: Possible Pango 1.4 ideas

[Amaury Jacquot <sxpert esitcom org>]

On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 19:02, Damon Chaplin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I noticed the discussions on gtk-devel about GTK+ 2.4 plans, so I
> wondered if we should try to get some better layout features into Pango
> for the next release. Quite a few people seem interested in using Pango
> for DTP or printing now!
> 
> I'm going to work on these (practically full-time):
> 
>  o Hyphenation.
>  o Justification.
>  o Tab stops - left/center/right alignment, fill characters,
>    aligning on specific characters.
>  o Underlines - word-underline (only underlines characters,
>    not whitespace), and squiggly red underlines, for spelling errors.
>  o Displaying invisible chars, like spaces, tabs, paragraph terminators.
>  o Drop capitals.
>  o Small caps for first n lines of paragraph.
>  o Kerning - customizable kerning for particular character pairs.
>  o Tracking - customizable for particular paragraphs.
>  o Runarounds & shaped text boxes - would need to cooperate with
>    higher-level code to determine where text can be placed on each line.
>  o Leading - locking to a baseline grid.

If you could add the writing of text on a rotated base line
(unless that is included in Runarounds/shaped text boxes),
I would be grateful


> I think that lot should make it possible to produce fairly decent
> word-processor/DTP apps (if we can get printing working as well!).
> 
> TeX-like hyphenation & justification is well underway (it works but
> there are lots of bits to sort out). And compared to those, the others
> are a doddle.
> 
> We don't have to make a decision now, though - if I can get a reasonable
> patch ready by May/June we can decide then. But it's something to bear
> in mind.
> 
> Damon
> 
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