Re: Pango-1.7.0 released [unstable]

[Daniel Glassey <danglassey-abi ntlworld com>]

On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 13:42 -0500, Owen Taylor wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 13:07 -0500, Edward H. Trager wrote:

> > Also what about Burmese? Is anyone working on Burmese via
> > OpenType, or does Burmese really require SIL's Graphite, and if
> > so is anybody seriously working on SIL integration into Pango?
> 
> I think it should be quite possible to do Burmese with OpenType,
> I'm not aware of anybody working on that, or on Pango support
> for Burmese OpenType fonts.
> 
> For Graphite support, see:
> 
>  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135697

Current progress is that it renders fine so it is suitable for UI
interfaces but line breaking, cursor tracking, selection are works in
progress.

The module can be found in graphite cvs
https://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=66144 in the directory
contrib/pangomod. The module also requires a patch to fontconfig
(https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105) but I think it should
be possible to make that optional so it doesn't have to wait on that
patch as well.

> There are some unresolved issues with font selection that make
> this unlikely for Pango-1.8.0.

Hi Owen. Is there anything I can do to help resolve these. Can you
summarise what needs resolved please?

Regards,
Daniel