Re: Indic scripts

>
> Hello all,
> I noticed the call for help wrt Indic and Arabic scripts in the Abiword
> newsletter - and I think I can do some volunteering here.
> I am quite familiar with the Bengali script and the Devnagari script,
> and remotely acquainted with the Oriya script. I have some experience in
> developing OpenType fonts, and I also have some vague ideas about
> printing complex scripts with libgnomeprint (with the help of Pango).
> I have checked out the abiword CVS, and currently I am running the CVS
> version of Abiword in my GNU/Linux box.
>
> -thanks-
> Sayamindu
>

Hi Sayamindu,
             Thank you very much for your offer of help. Please feel free
to ask questions here and on the #abiword IRC channel.

Are you more comfortable developing for Wndows or Linux? In the case of
Windows Tomas Frydrych has done a lot of work to use the native windows
script rendering library.

On linux we'd like to use pango to do the same thing but no one has yet
had time to develop it.

Look in src/af/gr/xp/gr_Graphics* and src/af/gr/unix/gr_UnixGraphics* or
src/af/gr/win/gr_Win32Graphics

Thanks very much for your interest and please ask for help.

Cheers

Martin

>
> --
> Sayamindu Dasgupta
> [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings]
>
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Received on Tue Jun 1 01:49:21 2004