Re: Hacktext availability

["Thomas J. Duck" <tomduck fizz phys dal ca>]

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Hi Jody,

     Thanks for your email on this, which is much appreciated.

> > 1) Can you make the Hacktext interface public?  It's currently private.
> There are no plans to do this, and I would be against such a change.
> gnomeprintui is the wrong place for that code to live.  We are
> moving towards pure pango for text rendering.

     If I understand correctly, pango doesn't allow text rotations, and so
you would be giving up that capability.  Can you confirm this for me?

> > 2) Alternatively, would it be possible to transfer Hacktext (and other
> >    required files) to the GnomeCanvas, so that others can benefit from
> >    this work?
>
> It's possible, although gnomecanvas is not seeing alot of
> development right now.
>
> I'd reccomend just cloning the code into your project (it's lgpl).

     OK, I will give this some thought.  It would be nice to make this
code more generally available, but I'm not sure what the best way to do
this is if it is not in your plans.

> >      I am a developer with the plplot project
> Interesting.  We've been working on a plotting library in gnumeric
> as part of libgoffice.  We should compair notes at some point.

     I would be happy to.  My recent contribution to the plplot cvs was
the Gnome Canvas Widget (gcw) driver, which allows you to embed
plots in Gnome applications.  Good fun!

Sincerely,
Tom

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