On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 11:04 +0400, Yahya Mohammad wrote:
> I was trying to do something similar a while back. It
would be nice to remove
> the extra Fontconfig dependency.
I don't see that happen soon.
> Is there a release date for the fribidi2
> module (with arabic shaping)? Or is there a stable
branch in CVS that can be
> used right now?
No release scheduled yet, but the code in fribidi2 branch of
CVS has
been mostly unchanged for more than two years and people
have been using
it..
behdad
> Thank you.
>
> On Tue 01 May 2007 03:45, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> > On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 09:15 -0700, Abu Ismail
wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm trying to use pango to provide persian
text shaping for an
> > > application. The application uses the
freetype library but uses its
> > > own way of accessing font files instead of
fontconfig. So I already
> > > have access to the string pathname to the ttf
font file I want to use.
> > > I looked at the low level functions in the
pango manual but I can't
> > > figure out how to build a pangolayout without
using fontconfig. Is
> > > this possible?
> >
> > Not right now.
> >
> > > If so, can somone guide me how to do this?
> >
> > Others that have wanted to do this are using the
fribidi2 module from
> > fribidi.org which does the bidi reordering and
Arabic shaping part you
> > need.
> >
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