Re: [Gnome-print] Glyph placement with respect to bidirectional strings

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

brendan owens <brendan.owens@sun.com> writes:

> Hi all,
>  If Pango deals with the direction and placement of glyphs to a display,
> how does Gnome print deal with the same with respect to documents?

It will deal with it using Pango, eventually. There is nothing display
specific about Pango.

(The details of how gnome-print will interact with Pango still have
to be worked out, but the goal is certainly to use Pango as the
text layout engine that positions glyphs for gnome-print.)

                                        Owen