Re: Possible Pango 1.4 ideas

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Damon Chaplin <damon karuna uklinux net> writes:

> On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 17:24, Amaury Jacquot wrote:
> 
> > 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
> 
> That was next on my list, but I had to draw the line somewhere.
> Also, drawing text on paths may require a dependency on libart or
> something similar to provide a bezier path datatype and do the
> calculations. (Maybe that is simple enough to do internally in Pango -
> I'm not sure.)
> 
> But I think you could still do text on a path within an application.
> You could translate the coordinates returned by Pango and render the
> text yourself.

Rotated baselines is very high on the Pango request list:

 - It's needed to do vertical text the way I want to do vertical text
 - It comes up in a lot of apps (gnumeric needs it, for instance)

I'm wondering if I can drop core X font support for 1.4/GTK+-2.4...
would be reasonably trivial then.

Regards,
                                        Owen