Around 23 o'clock on Aug 31, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote: > Turns out Keith Packard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> had already done skeleton > of required Xft code for tk8.3 - so perl/Tk (Tk804) will probably include an > option to use that. (Still needs some work.)
If you can, you should move to Pango instead of raw Xft; the results you get will be significantly better for languages requiring complex layout. > Martin suggested using SIL's "graphite" as well - but that seems to need > tweaks to Xft? SIL wants to identify fonts with graphite support; I think owen figured out what is needed for fontconfig to make that happen before the fonts get loaded, now all we need is someone to go and write the code. -keith
