RE: Setting the pango.Language for a widget

2008-09-22 Thread Boncek, John
You set the language twice on "ru". (such short names...) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of F Wolff Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2008 10:39 AM To: gtk-i18n-list@gnome.org Subject: Setting the pango.Language for a widget Hallo list I'm str

fontconfig "preferred" families and where to get more information

2008-07-02 Thread Boncek, John
The fontconfig configuration files 60-latin.conf, 65-nonlatin.conf, and several others contain lists of preferred font families broken down by serif, sans-serif, and monospace. Since there are therefore several lists of preferred sans-serif families, how are these different lists applied when a

RE: acceptability of Chinese-Traditional character substitute

2008-06-17 Thread Boncek, John
e get unintended consequences. Thanks again. John -Original Message- From: Qianqian Fang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 12:15 PM To: Boncek, John Cc: gtk-i18n-list@gnome.org Subject: Re: acceptability of Chinese-Traditional character substitute IMO, the substitution is

acceptability of Chinese-Traditional character substitute

2008-06-16 Thread Boncek, John
On an embedded Linux / GTK 2.10 / Pango system with limited font and memory resources, we have CJK font support via the latest release of X11R7.3, using only the "misc-misc" fonts. We have found a missing character, U+555F. The online Unihan database at http://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUniha

software engineer / consultant

2007-09-13 Thread Boncek, John
A leading international company is seeking a software engineer / consultant to provide programming services related to GTK porting and font issues in an embedded Linux application. We are porting a graphical application that makes extensive use of the font capabilities of GTK to produce screen dis

RE: e-mail delivery gone crazy

2007-08-17 Thread Boncek, John
If moderation happens once a year, it would be better to simply flush such messages rather than moderate them. Regards, John Boncek -Original Message- From: Daniel Glassey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 10:01 AM To: Alan W. Irwin Cc: Boncek, John; gtk-i18n-list

RE: e-mail delivery gone crazy

2007-08-17 Thread Boncek, John
A slight correction to my earlier message -- the count of 42 was correct but the oldest date was August 12, 2006, which fits your speculation of a one-year window. -Original Message- From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 9:35 AM To: Boncek, John Cc

e-mail delivery gone crazy

2007-08-17 Thread Boncek, John
I've been subscribed for a long time, receiving regular delivery. Last night I received 42 messages from this list, with dates as far back as October of last year. ___ gtk-i18n-list mailing list gtk-i18n-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listi

Far Eastern fonts for embedded Linux

2007-07-17 Thread Boncek, John
Hi, I am looking for Chinese, Korean, and Thai fonts for embedded applications. Memory is tight -- I have about 10 megabytes total to spend on these. Screen space is also limited, so fonts that are legible at less than 20 pixels or so total height would be desirable. The applications run in Lin

Chinese Traditional appearance -- mixed weights?

2006-09-28 Thread Boncek, John
Attached is a screen shot of a screen generated using Pango with GTK 2.2.4 in Chinese Traditional. Does the Chinese look correct? We currently have no one who reads Chinese, but it looks to us like we're getting mixed weights (boldness) for different characters in the same line in many cases. Do

GTK 2.2.4 with Pango 1.2.5 -- performance depends on language

2006-09-22 Thread Boncek, John
We have a large application that can be run in many languages. Screen transitions slow down noticeably in certain languages (with everything else the same). In English or Chinese Simplified, a certain screen takes about 3 seconds to completely display (not fast but tolerable). In Japanese, Arabi

RE: Pango-1.10.1 released

2005-10-03 Thread Boncek, John
You said "Virtually all of the world's major scripts are supported." I'm curious -- what "major scripts" are still omitted? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Owen Taylor Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 8:27 AM To: gnome-announce-list@gnome.or

RE: Chinese Simplified appearance

2005-09-01 Thread Boncek, John
development. Previous to this, I had thought that having the proper Unicode characters was all that should be needed. -Original Message- From: Owen Taylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 8:47 PM To: Boncek, John Cc: gtk-i18n-list@gnome.org Subject: Re: Chinese Simplified

"Pango provides routines to list available fonts …"

2005-08-31 Thread Boncek, John
Title: "Pango provides routines to list available fonts …" In the Pango documentation and all over the Internet I find the statement "Pango provides routines to list available fonts …" but nowhere can I find what those routines are.  This sounds like a user-accessible feature.  Is it ju

Chinese Simplified appearance

2005-08-31 Thread Boncek, John
Title: Chinese Simplified appearance Attached is a screen shot of a screen we are generating using Pango with GTK 2.2.4.  It is a print preview screen with the printout mostly in Chinese Simplified.  Does the Chinese look correct?  It looks to us like Pango may have selected different s

RE: Pango font description strings

2005-06-30 Thread Boncek, John
Is there a way to have Pango stretch or condense a piece of text, in other words to change the aspect ratio of the characters? I can find no way to control this in the GTK/Pango documentation. ___ gtk-i18n-list mailing list gtk-i18n-list@gnome.org http:/

Pango font description strings

2005-06-30 Thread Boncek, John
The Gnome/Pango documentation (at http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/pango/pango-Fonts.html#pango-font-d escription-from-string) says that font description strings have the form "[FAMILY-LIST] [STYLE-OPTIONS] [SIZE]" and then briefly describes each of the fields. How can I tell what values are

PanGo name

2005-06-30 Thread Boncek, John
Title: Arabic line spacing problem  The name PanGo is being used by a Wi-Fi company.  See http://www.pangonetworks.com/.  This is unfortunate, to say the least. ___ gtk-i18n-list mailing list gtk-i18n-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mail

RE: Arabic line spacing problem

2005-05-11 Thread Boncek, John
ay 08, 2005 5:08 AM To: Boncek, John Cc: gtk-i18n-list@gnome.org Subject: Re: Arabic line spacing problem Hi John, In the screen shots that your sent: 1. The Arabic seems to use a different font for the text above the buttons than for the buttons. 2. The first button on the left in the Arab

Arabic line spacing problem

2005-04-28 Thread Boncek, John
Title: Arabic line spacing problem Thanks for all the interest and suggestions.  I'm gradually trying to follow up on them. Here are screen shots of the same screen in English, Hebrew, and Arabic.  The xterm window used to do the captures covers only a non-text area of the screen. 

Arabic line spacing problem

2005-04-28 Thread Boncek, John
I have an application with internationalized text display working well, mostly, using GTK 2.2.4, pango 1.2.5, and UTF-8. It runs under MontaVista Linux and uses gdk_draw_layout to draw all text. However, I have a problem with the application in Arabic. Spaces between lines in multi-line Arabic t