On 03/12/2012 03:44 PM, Jeremy Moles wrote: > Hello everyone; I've noticed a bit more traffic on these lists lately > with behdad having turned over maintainership, and so I figured I'd pose > my question here as well. > > The bottom line, really, is that I'm looking for some way (any way!) to > get vertical text support on Windows using Pango. When using Linux our > application behaves perfectly when requesting a vertical layout with > Pango. On Windows, however, Pango doesn't use the Fontconfig backend > (and I've not been able to figure out how to encourage/force it to). Other than what I told you already, I think there's some cairo API missing also, so getting the win32 backend to work wouldn't be trivial at this time. > I've spent some time trying to hack Pango itself to no avail; I just > don't have enough understanding to even know where to begin. Therefore, > I'd like to try configuring Pango to use the Fontconfig/FT2 backends on > Windows instead. I'm not even sure if I'm using the right terminology > here, so please bear with me. :) pango_cairo_font_map_new_for_font_type(CAIRO_FONT_TYPE_FT) behdad > My question is: if I go down this path, is this likely (or even > possible) to solve my issue with needing vertical text in Windows? I > understand Pango's problems aren't related to Fontconfig, but I'm hoping > the domains might be similar enough for other people to comment. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Fontconfig mailing list > Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig > _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig
