Re: Gravity Support / pangowin32

[Jeremy Moles <jeremy emperorlinux com>]

On Wed, 2012-02-22 at 17:00 -0500, Jeremy Moles wrote:
> Hello everyone. I am interested in getting gravity support to work in
> Pango on Windows using the Win32 backend (I haven't tested this using
> hte Fc/FT backend on Windows).
> 
> Does anyone have any experience with this? Does anyone know where I
> would need to start hacking to add support? I don't mind doing the work,
> but I truly have no idea where to even start.
> 
> In pangowin32-fontmap.c there is a routine:
> 
> 	pango_win32_font_map_load_font
> 
> ...and this routine will return a valid PangoFont* UNLESS you have
> gravity set. For whatever reason, the current implementation doesn't
> understand how to handle the "Rotated-*" style that is added inside the
> description when gravity is set.
> 
> How does gravity actually work in Pango internally? Do the font files on
> disk have to provide some extra hints?
> 
> Any help would be appreciated, and thanks beforehand...

I figured I'd bump this again after a week before giving up. :)

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