Documentation please. Alan Coopersmith wrote: > > Over the past few months, a team of Sun engineers with experience in X > internals, internationalization, and fonts have been working on a > proposed new text architecture for X. We've all been watching the > discussion of various font & text problems and proposed solutions on > mailing lists such as the XFree86 lists, but have had to keep quiet > pending management approval to discuss our project openly. > > The Sun project was started because the current X font and text > mechanisms are dated and do not meet the needs of globalized > applications. We have designed a display and platform-independent text > architecture, the Standard Type Services (ST) framework, which handles > not just font rendering, but text layout and font management as well. > ST incorporates typographically sophisticated features and ideas from > the best regarded existing APIs, including Apple Type Services for > Unicode Imaging (ATSUI) and Java2D TextLayouts. On top of ST, we have > layered a new extension to the X protocol, called XST, which > incorporates the ST functionality. The ST API will also be exposed to > applications independant of the X environment so that it can be used > for Java servlets and applets and text rendering to printers, image files, > and other displays. > > The ST Framework provides a scalable client-server architecture that > allows multiple clients to share access to common fonts, while > allowing applications with private fonts to keep them private. ST > provides a pluggable API through which many font scalers can be used > by the Font Server, including handling of "smart font" technology such > as OpenType & TrueType GX. Plugins for several font scalers are > available today, each providing a different set of capabilities, > properties and licenses, but unified under a single API for the > client. > > The ST API includes functions for font management, rendering, text > layout, and access to all available information about the font, > including access to outlines for output to vector devices. ST is > designed around Unicode and support for languages requiring complex > text layout is included as a core part of the design. > > We are preparing to release ST under a X/BSD-style license, and once > that happens, we plan to work with the XFree86, X.org, and li18nux.org > communities to make sure ST & XST meet the needs of the widest > audience. We will send a further announcement to these groups when > the ST materials are released. > > - The ST Core Team: > Alex Gelfenbain [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Alan Coopersmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Jay Cotton [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Jay Hobson [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Stuart Kreitman [EMAIL PROTECTED] > X11 & Globalization Technology Group > Sun Microsystems, Inc. > > _______________________________________________ > I18n mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/i18n
-- Brian Stell mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
