Re: [xmlroff] xmlroff with Pango 1.5.1 and libgnomeprint 2.7.1

[Leonard R. <leo...@pd...>]

At 06:21 AM 8/27/2004, Tony Graham wrote:
>The alignment-adjust, alignment-baseline, reset-size, and
>dominant-baseline don't really work anymore, I think.  They used to
>work with early versions of Pango before Pango moved to using
>fontconfig.  To implement them properly will require hacking FreeType2
>to support the relevant OpenType tables and then implementing support
>for that support in Pango.

         There is already work going on between Pango, FreeType and Qt for 
the creation of a new "underpinning" library to FreeType which is called 
OTLayout - which will handle the low level aspects of OpenType font 
management (table parsing, validation, etc.) that Pango (etc.) can then use.

         Work has already begun, code in is FT's CVS tree, and discussions 
take place on the FT developer's mailing list.


Leonard

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