Re: Hacktext availability

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

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Hi Jody,

> There are two simple approaches.
> 1) Use the existing affine support in gnomecanvas to rotate the
>    text.  It's not perfect but it works.

     Hmmm.  When I tried this before, it rotated the position of the
character only, but not the character itself.  This is what prompted me to
look for other solutions, and eventually to Hacktext.  Maybe the problem
has been fixed since.

> 2) Use the new pango-1.8 level apis
>     pango_context_get_matrix (context);
>     pango_matrix_rotate (&rotmat, rv->rotation);
>     pango_context_set_matrix (context, &rotmat);
> in gnomecanvas.

     OK, I will give this a try.  Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

> Drop by #gnumeric on irc.gnome.org some time.

     Will do!

Sincerely,
Tom
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