[sword-devel] Text layout (was Re: Portable Bible prototype)

[Eeli Kaikkonen]

On Sat, 7 Jun 2008, DM Smith wrote:

> Peter von Kaehne wrote:
> > As I have no clue how it _should_ look like, I am at a loss to say which
> > one is more correct, if any.
> Peter,
>     If you send me images of both, I'll find out if either is correct.
> Two of the SIL translators on the Myanmar bible are on furlough here and
> go to our church.

Having some reference images in Internet would be nice, I would like to
see how this shows up in BibleTime and how it should be. This goes for
other languages/scripts, too. Generally speaking there is nothing which
an ordinary developer can do about these problems but at least it would
be good to know the situation.

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/TextLayout has a very short introduction
for those who wonder the differencies in the output but I am yet to find
a good introduction to the techniques involved - fonts, font engines,
layout engines etc.


  Yours,
	Eeli Kaikkonen (Mr.), Oulu, Finland
	e-mail: eekaikko at mailx.studentx.oulux.fix (with no x)