On Feb 5, 2014, at 8:10 AM, erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net> wrote:
>> On Feb 5, 2014, at 3:36 AM, erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net> >> wrote: >>> once one thinks about major modifications, i think it becomes >>> attractive to think about a new editor. i miss having graphics. >> If you mean mixed text and image, you will end up with some sort of >> structured markup language and a "word processor"! > > oberon certainly managed this with trivial layout. > > for example, it could be as simple as an interface that allows > graphical applications inline with text. for example, > ; lc > clock.c > ; clock& > [display of clock here persists until killed] > ; pwd > /usr/quanstro/src/cmd/clock Oh, you just want graphics display! >> What I want is support for complex text layout rendering (for Indian >> languages among others). This requires supporting OpenType fonts, not >> an easy task. Mac's TextEdit seems to do a decent job of this but I >> don't like it as an editor. > > i don't see why complex layout rendering -> opentype. could you explain > this? You need to use a font that has CTL logic built in. In complex scripts a sequence of Unicode chars will map to a single glyph. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_text_layout
