<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jun 8, 2008, at 11:08 AM, Chris Little wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; ">Regarding the possibility of complex script rendering in BD, there was a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>brief discussion of complex scripts in Java on graphite-devel a week<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>ago:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><a href="http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=OF488F087E.E5E55533-ON86257456.004F079E-86257456.00506903%40notes.sil.org&forum_name=silgraphite-devel">http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=OF488F087E.E5E55533-ON86257456.004F079E-86257456.00506903%40notes.sil.org&forum_name=silgraphite-devel</a><br><br>The suggested best course of action for today is to use the Eclipse SWT<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>framework since it will use pango on linux & uniscribe on windows.<br></span></blockquote><br></div><div>Chris,</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for the info!</div><div><br></div><div>Swing's and AWT's rendering leaves lot to be desired. The problems I am seeing include improper combining of unicode characters and bad implementation of BiDi text (which affects rendering of verse numbers in Farsi).</div><div><br></div><div>Right now our plan is:<br></div><div>1) Release 1.0.8 (any day now)</div><div>2) Add Bookmarks, Annotations and Personal Commentary for 1.1.</div><div>3) Re-write BD in SWT for 2.0.</div><div><br></div><div>Your info gives all the more reason to hurry.</div><div><br></div><div>DM</div><br></body></html>