Re: canvas rich text widget?

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Bibek Sahu <scorpio dodds net> writes: 
> 
> 	(1) does the layout support wrapping around other things?  I recall
> seeing a little test proggy that wrapped text around some other stuff, so
> I'm inclined to believe yes... but I also thought that was used via. the
> Gnome Canvas, which this certainly isn't doing.
>

It doesn't do this, no. It has to be rectangular.
 
> 	(2) where would one find XftFreetype.h (which pango apparently
> depends on).  I'm using Xfree86 4.0.2 with TrueType support and the RENDER
> extension, I have the development files installed, but the only thing in the
> include/X11/Xft/ directory is 'Xft.h'.  I tried symlinking that to
> XftFreetype.h, which, as you might expect, did not work too well. :-}  A
> Google search turned up nothing about it, nor did my search through Debian's
> archives... and if xfree86.org has a search function, I haven't found it
> yet.
> 

Pango shouldn't require this, unless you are compiling with render
extension support. I don't know where that header comes from, I've
never compiled with XFree 4.

Havoc