Re: Using pango without fontconfig

[Yahya Mohammad <mfyahya gmail com>]

I was trying to do something similar a while back. It would be nice to remove 
the extra Fontconfig dependency. Is there a release date for the fribidi2 
module (with arabic shaping)? Or is there a stable branch in CVS that can be 
used right now?

Thank you.

On Tue 01 May 2007 03:45, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 09:15 -0700, Abu Ismail wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >  I'm trying to use pango to provide persian text shaping for an
> > application. The application uses the freetype library but uses its
> > own way of accessing font files instead of fontconfig.  So I already
> > have access to the string pathname to the ttf font file I want to use.
> > I  looked at the low level functions in the pango manual but I can't
> > figure out how to build a pangolayout without using fontconfig. Is
> > this possible?
>
> Not right now.
>
> > If so, can somone guide me how to do this?
>
> Others that have wanted to do this are using the fribidi2 module from
> fribidi.org which does the bidi reordering and Arabic shaping part you
> need.
>