Re: Pango, SIL Graphite, Myanmar

["Edward H. Trager" <ehtrager umich edu>]

On Saturday 2004.12.04 15:49:22 +0000, Daniel Glassey wrote:
> 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.

Excellent!  So I guess that provides support to my position that 
there is no need for Linux developers to wait for Microsoft to come out with an OpenType
spec for Myanmar.

> 
> 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
> 
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