Re: Xlib and rotated text?

2011-03-18 Thread Chris
ot easily available in XLib. Therefore it feels overkill to add dependencies for this thing. BR, Chris --- On Thu, 3/17/11, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > From: Alan Coopersmith > Subject: Re: Xlib and rotated text? > To: "Chris" > Cc: xorg@lists.freedesktop.org > Date:

Re: Xlib and rotated text?

2011-03-18 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 03/18/11 01:18 AM, walter harms wrote: > > > Am 17.03.2011 20:30, schrieb Peter Harris: >> On 2011-03-17 13:52, Chris wrote: >>> I've had a look at freetype, but it seems like overkill for what I >>> need and also a dependency I'm not sure I can "afford" (and it seems >>> that then I also need

Re: Xlib and rotated text?

2011-03-18 Thread walter harms
Am 17.03.2011 20:30, schrieb Peter Harris: > On 2011-03-17 13:52, Chris wrote: >> I've had a look at freetype, but it seems like overkill for what I >> need and also a dependency I'm not sure I can "afford" (and it seems >> that then I also need fontconfig). So this is a last resort for me. > >

Re: Xlib and rotated text?

2011-03-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 03/17/11 10:52 AM, Chris wrote: > I want to write some strings that are rotated 90 degrees. If the solution > handles ASCII, then that's sufficient, but if it handles latin-1 then even > better, but I don't need any unicode or such. > So, can I do it in Xlib without writing the complete matric

Re: Xlib and rotated text?

2011-03-17 Thread Peter Harris
On 2011-03-17 13:52, Chris wrote: > I've had a look at freetype, but it seems like overkill for what I > need and also a dependency I'm not sure I can "afford" (and it seems > that then I also need fontconfig). So this is a last resort for me. You want to use ciaro/pango/fontconfig/freetype for th

Xlib and rotated text?

2011-03-17 Thread Chris
Hi all, not sure if this is the correct mailing list, buf please refer me to the correct list if this is the wrong place. I'm trying to learn to code for X by learning xlib. The application I'm writing must be able to run with as few dependencies as possible (I need to be able to build it on m