On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 02:34, Jonathan Phillips wrote:
Will Pango allow us to have a block of text with various spacing and different fonts, styles flowing together? For example, I hope that our implementation of spacing is not only limited to lines, but so that one could select/highlight text and then change the selection's font, spacing, size and allow that text be edited the same as our current implementation.
pango would help a lot with that, though of course it would not do everything for us. One area where it is particularly helpful is knowing how many bytes/unicode codepoints to advance the cursor -- currently I believe we assume codepoints == glyphs, but the number of codepoints comprising a visible glyph can vary quite a bit in practice...
-mental