Re: Ligatures and Pango?

[Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen xs4all nl>]

Owen Taylor wrote:
> > > Yeah, that's the plan.  The shaper adjusts PGIX to do kerning.
> >
> > Then how come that Gedit does do kerning for the same text? Is it a 
> > setting that I should switch on in Pango somewhere?
>
>
> Actually the representation of the kerning is in the *width* field
> of PangoGlyphGeometry, not the x_ofset/y_offset fields. 
> The x_offset/y_offset fields are not cumulative, so wouldn't work for
> kerning -- you'd need to add more and more adjustment to the x as you
> went along in the string.

I got the scaling issue fixed now. What surprises me is that Pango 
doesn't do kerning by default (at least: not on FC4), while ChangeLogs 
suggest that kerning has been part of Pango since 1.4 or thereabouts. It 
does work with my local copy of Pango CVS.


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