On Wednesday, August 28, 2002, at 04:09 AM, Lars Marius Garshol wrote: > That function also applies the bidirectional algorithm to the text it > displays. However, since the application needs to do all manner of > strange formatting (colouring, interspersed images, first-line > specials, first-letter specials, base-line adjustments, ...) it calls > the method word for word, doing the formatting itself.
This is why ATSUI (Apple's Carbon API for drawing Unicode text) is designed to deal with a paragraph at a time, supporting multiple fonts, colors, cross-stream shifts, with-stream shifts, baseline adjustments, leaving space for embedded images, etc. The new (to Jaguar) ATSUI Direct Access API allows direct program intervention in the low-level layout process as well. An API that renders Unicode text correctly only when it's all in one font isn't terribly useful. :-) Documentation on ATSUI Direct Access will be available whenever we update our online documentation to reflect 10.2, which should be over the coming few months, I believe. The header files are available now with 10.2, of course. Deborah Goldsmith Manager, Fonts & Unicode Apple Computer, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
