Re: [Devel] about FT layout

[Alexander Gelfenbain]

STSF made a significant progress over the last couple of months
and we will be doing demos next week at LinuxWorld in San Francisco.

Text layout has not been fully implemented yet and is not available
in the CVS tree or code snapshots on sourecforge, but it is a number
one priority for the STSF team. Stay tuned.

AG


On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 01:18:18AM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > How about the FT Layout project now?
> 
> Sleeping.
> 
> > Is it possible to view some demo?
> 
> No.
> 
> I've attended a conference on internationalization issues fur Linux in
> Taipeh where I've met HIURA Hideki, one of the leading X developers.
> Fact is that there are some projects which already do what FTL is
> intended to do; most notably STSF (see stsf.sf.net) and ICU from IBM,
> and Hideki convinced me that before we start with FTL, we have to
> check how they do it.  The only justification IMHO for writing FTL is
> to make it extremely small and modularized, suitable for embedded
> systems.  Otherwise we are reinventing the wheel since e.g. STSF
> already has a backend for FreeType 2.
> 
> 
>     Werner
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