Re: Need help to implement text/font stuff for Mozilla

On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 07:25:15 UTC, Aaron Lawrence wrote:

On a pleasant day while strolling in
comp.os.os2.programmer.misc, a person by the name of
Peter Weilbacher exclaimed:
As there are many people in the OS/2 world who know a lot more about
handling of fonts, glyphs, Unicode etc. (The recent thread by Alex Taylor
and KO Myung-Hun that I hardly understood demonstrates that.) I would
guess that other people might also be more successful quickly

Peter, I have a lot of respect for you tackling this
job, but I would not be surprised to find some of it is
practically impossible ... after all Mozilla stopped
supporting Win98 because of Cairo.

I think I only deserve your respect once it's at least running...

There is nobody left who knows the font stuff in real
detail. The people here can help you with some bits of
it, but for hardcore stuff you are probably on your own.
(You could try contacting some of the IBMers who posted
here before, but again they will acknowledge their
limits)

I don't think that for the moment many details are needed. Once we get
it to display plain ASCII with some default font in a default size we
can slow go from there. The problem is more that I couldn't even figure
that basic part out. Now I have gotten some hints from the Mozilla guys,
so perhaps

It would all be a lot easier if we had a native OS/2 font backend
implemented in the cairo library. Doodle originally chose the
Freetype/FontConfig backend because it was there and easy to use, but I
think that now it isn't enough any more. But I'm not really sure about
that.
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