From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27894 invoked by alias); 3 Oct 2004 18:36:34 -0000 Mailing-List: contact xconq7-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: xconq7-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 27877 invoked from network); 3 Oct 2004 18:36:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail1.panix.com) (166.84.1.72) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 3 Oct 2004 18:36:34 -0000 Received: from panix5.panix.com (panix5.panix.com [166.84.1.5]) by mail1.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCD7B4878C; Sun, 3 Oct 2004 14:36:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from kingdon@localhost) by panix5.panix.com (8.11.6p2-a/8.8.8/PanixN1.1) id i93IaX021511; Sun, 3 Oct 2004 14:36:33 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 18:49:00 -0000 Message-Id: <200410031836.i93IaX021511@panix5.panix.com> From: Jim Kingdon To: mcdonald@phy.cmich.edu Cc: xconq7@sources.redhat.com In-reply-to: <41603B5E.1090509@phy.cmich.edu> (message from Eric McDonald on Sun, 03 Oct 2004 11:48:14 -0600) Subject: Re: New Proposed Xconq Web Site Online References: <200410010555.i915tAn05390@panix5.panix.com> <415E0BED.6080105@phy.cmich.edu> <200410031559.i93Fxag11465@panix5.panix.com> <41603B5E.1090509@phy.cmich.edu> X-SW-Source: 2004/txt/msg01330.txt.bz2 > Unless there is multi-platform, lightweight rendering API that can > take a list of Pango glyphs (which I am led to believe is what comes > out of the far end of the Pango pipeline) and actually draw them on > the display, I am not sure how much use it would be to us. It is possible that http://sdlpango.sourceforge.net/ is such a thing. Although that page seemed to describe lots of issues, without quite saying just what SDL_Pango does. > Possibly. But, I have previously mentioned the possibility of writing > labels in runic alphabets (both historical and fictitious): It is the kind of thing which wouldn't be off the shelf. But using Unicode's private character numbers and writing yourself a font which the usual UTF-8 tools can process might be just as easy as doing everything from scratch. Of course the real point of using something like Pango would be if we want to deal with arabic, thai, bidirectional, and the other complicated cases. If you just want to put up characters next to each other, something much simpler like the following (or even home grown solutions like what we have now) are much more plausible: http://www.linux-games.com/sfont/ http://www.geocities.com/andre_leiradella/#sdl_bdf