Hello all, I'm a linguistics student, and as part of a research project I've devised a hypothetical new script for certain phonetic applications. It's a novel approach, and the standard left-to-right sequential rendering of characters as for English or European languages is not going to work for rendering it (although I experimented with kerning in the font). The script resembles Korean Han-gul in that it works by systematically combining certain graphic elements into blocks. I have the glyphs stored in abritrary order inside a TrueType UTF-8 font, although I realize I'll need to address the encoding issue for real at some point, and an input method is also being devised. After a week of poring over the documentation and source code for Pango, I'm still not sure how to proceed in writing a module to render the script. I have tried to analyze the source code for the Han-gul module, but I'm having trouble figuring out how to apply that to what I'm doing. I feel like I'm missing a step in the font process. Can anyone point me towards some documentation that describes the font system on a lower level, or suggest a way to get started? Using Pango to render text seems easy enough, but building a new renderer seems like a less common task. I have also been looking at the docs and mailing list archives for Freetype2, but haven't found anything of this sort. Any information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Dominic Espinosa __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com
