On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Eric Jonas wrote:
I just submitted the convex-hull-of-selected-points snap patch (sf request id 1054639). If people would try it out and let me know what they think, I'd be quite happy. It's not a "real" convex hull, but instead uses the libnr code to get the bounding box of the convex hull.
Cool!
I tried looking at the text code, but quickly became lost; is there any documentation anywhere on how to get the baseline of a particular text object, or even just an overview of the text subsystem in general? Typography is a scary, complex field...
The Pango portion of the text system has some docs, via the Pango website. Not great but perhaps enough to get you going. That's where I'd look first in order to find baseline info about text.
In general, though, much of the codebase lacks documentation, but only for historical reasons. We encourage adding docs as you go, or even just random notes and comments. :-)
Bryce