From: Dom Lachowicz (domlachowicz@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Jul 09 2003 - 16:09:52 EDT
> yes, that would be very useful. So you're implicitly
> saying that AbiWord
> can act as both a container and containee (w.r.t.
> bonobo architecture).
We will strive for this past our 2.0 release. But for
now, we can only be a containee.
> Well, it hasn't been released yet, but there already
> is a port of
> gtkmathview to GTK2. To be honest, the port is
> partial. My first plan
> was to switch to pango rendering completely, but
> math fonts have their
> own encoding and glyphs, so that a custom mapping
> Unicode->glyph index
> has to be implemented anyway. Right now the GTK2
> port still uses some
> deprecated APIs to render glyphs on the drawing
> area. What you're saying
> here is that I should implement a rendering system
> based on Xft2
> directly, which should be more or less trivial as
> you pointed out. At
> the same time, I'm not sure how fontconfig can be of
> any help...
It doesn't matter so much how you print the pretty
symbols on the screen, so long as you do it, and do it
well :)
Dom
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