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[Freetype] Where can I find a decent introduction to text layout?
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Pedriana, Paul |
Subject: |
[Freetype] Where can I find a decent introduction to text layout? |
Date: |
Thu, 21 Nov 2002 14:31:42 -0800 |
I
recently finished implementing Thai, Japanese, Chinese, and Korean support for
our app (SimCity 4.exe). This support includes drawing multi-line text, drawing
HTML text, and editing multi-line non-stylized text. Implementing proper
Thai text editing is a bit more complicated than English, as anyone who's done
this knows. Computer games (such as SimCity) don't get to use the OS-provided
text editing and display functionality (especially if the code is executing on
something like a Sony PlayStation or Nintendo GameCube), so we are stuck writing
such support ourselves. Directly using third party code (open source or
otherwise) to do what we want is often impossible due to
legal/licensing issues.
We
would like to support Hebrew and Arabic next, but these are bidirectional and so
involve additional complications. Before I go anywhere with this, I would like
to know if there are any good references (book, Internet, open source) that
would help me understand the best way to approach this.
Paul
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