Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] Using libtextwrap in Tux Paint Config.

[Benson M. <ben...@em...>]

On 11/15/21 12:42 AM, Bill Kendrick wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 14, 2021 at 05:22:59PM +0300, Benson Muite wrote:
> 
> I admit I did not look at the code.  I was it was readily available
> in Ubuntu 20.04, and it seemed to be the only C-based library I
> could track down in Ubuntu, so I went with it. :)
> 
> I'm glad it can be build for Fedora; I know we have maintained
> our own versions of some packages -- http://tuxpaint.org/download/linux-rpm/
> includes some SDL packages that people may need, for example.
> 
> Shin-ichi, what are your thoughts on this?
> 
> A bigger concern, of course, is whether we can build it on Windows
> and other platforms where `tuxpaint-config` is available.
> 
> 
>> The package author Tomohiro KUBOTA seems not to be reachable[5].
> 
> :(
> 
> 
>> Text wrapping is also important in Web browser[6][7][8], but may be
>> different if intended for children[9]
> 
> Keep in mind that Tux Paint Config. is NOT intended for children,
> but for adults who are adjusting Tux Paint's settings.
Thanks for the clarification.
> 
> I assume that SDL_Pango is doing a fine enough job word-wrapping
> for us, as this particular situation never came up in Tux Paint
> itself, that I'm aware.
> 
> It's just a failing of FLTK itself. :-/
> 
> 
Could Pango be used for layouts since it supports a variety of different 
languages? Firefox has its own layout engine [1], which minimizes 
dependencies. libtextwrap is well written and could also be updated to 
use only unicode dependencies so it builds easily on a variety of 
operating systems? Another option might be libunibreak[2]. SDL_Pango[3] 
has not had many updates, but could also be migrated to SDL2. Happy to 
look further into these options.

[1] 
https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/intl/icu/source/common/dictbe.cpp
[2] https://github.com/adah1972/libunibreak
[3] https://sourceforge.net/projects/sdlpango/files/
[4] https://github.com/orgs/libsdl-org/repositories