I like this idea too.
In my opinion, one simplification would be if convertToBytes(String text)
method in FontDetails always contains the original Unicode text, in original
Unicode order.
In my opinion, this is the stage where, regardless of implementation,
BidiRuns should be calculated for the text. (I see you have bidi algorithm
included in your codebase so this should be compatible with C# as well).
as long as original text, along with BidiRuns can be passed to some
interface, and Glyphs with position information returned it could (depending
upon implementation):
A. pass this information to layoutGlyphs() as my patch does.
B. do what the previous itext code did, including ArabicLigaturizer and
in-house BidiReordering (essentially leaving the C# version unchanged)
C. do something special in the C# case such as hook to uniscribe
D. other possible implementations...
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 11:31 AM, 1T3XT info <[email protected]> wrote:
> Paulo Soares wrote:
> > Reinventing the wheel is something that we do everyday, either because
> > of licence issues or because the available wheels don't fit too well
> > to our requirements. The problem is that iText is not a Java only library
> > and for the moment the only thing that is not supported in C# is
> Graphics2D.
> > Basing everything in the Java layout capabilities closes the door to
> other
> > implementations. Before worrying about the layout itself maybe we should
> > worry about encapsulating it in a sort of plug-in or well defined classes
> > that could be replaced according to the language capabilities,
> layoutGlyphs()
> > in Java and Uniscribe in C#, for example.
>
> That's a good idea. I'll think about it.
> I have my dayjob tomorrow, but I'll see what I can do the day after.
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