On 1 Aug 2007, at 05:57, Yen-Ju Chen wrote: > Pango is more complicated. It depends on glib. > And if we use it, it has to play nice with GNUstep text system. > I am not sure it is technically feasible.
I was talking about Pango in the context of the text system. Fred Keifer intends to expand the -gui/-back interface to allow delegation of some functionality from the text system to the back end. The plan is for the Cairo back end to allow you to use Pango for layout, and fall back to the code in -gui for other back ends (or Cairo compiled without Pango). This makes sense to me, since there are a lot more people working on improving Pango's layout engine than there are working on GNUstep's. Unless Nicolas plans on implementing Knuth's algorithms in Objective-C, this is probably going to produce better results long-term. David _______________________________________________ Etoile-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-discuss
