Richard, some months ago you told me:
"My initial reaction is that because you're depending on so many bleeding-edge things there's quite a large risk that it won't be possible for you to finish it over the summer, through no fault of your own. I'll be much happier when I can see how Pango integrates this stuff."
refering to pango integration with user-fonts.
Today, that is still one of my big doubts about how to proceed in my SoC project. Any new ideas about it?
Juca
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 11:36 PM, Felipe Sanches <felipe.sanches@...400...> wrote:
"all text is output to libnr using livarot types, not using cairo"
Can you explain that in more detail? I'd like to know:
- what livarot types are.
- how does livarot distinguish from cairo
- does that mean we need to replace livarot? How to proceed?
"Getting text layout to use Cairo for output rather than libnr."
Can you show me where does that output reside in the code?
[09:51:42] <^-> [JucaBlues] so, I guess, we should have in the API a way to provide pango with the metrics specified on svgfonts xml attributes [09:52:03] <^-> [JucaBlues] i mean kerning and stuff like that [09:52:15] <cyreve> yeah which, now I think of it, is exactly what gail is looking at
"Finding a way to get the user font through Pango. One (ugly) possibility which comes to mind is to pretend to be sans-serif while going through Pango and then do a fudge afterwards. Gail asked to be a part of this discussion and she's more knowledgable than I am about cleaner approaches which could be taken here, so I've CCed her"
I'm still feeling completely lost
Juca