From: Tom Emerson (tree@basistech.com)
Date: Tue Jun 14 2005 - 13:43:20 CDT
Mete Kural writes:
> That is your opinion and I respect that. But I think the need for
> coloring parts of an Arabic word are justifiable enough (for example
> Arabic educational materials) that I would recommend any serious
> implementor of Arabic script rendering to provide the
> feature.
I recognize the need, but question utility of complicating the
rendering engines for *everyone* merely to support a (you have to
admit) a relatively small subset of Arabic-script users. That's my
point here.
> Arabic teachers do not have the skills to customize Pango.
Few people at all have the skills to customize Pango, or any other
rendering engine.
-tree
-- Tom Emerson Basis Technology Corp. Software Architect http://www.basistech.com "Beware the lollipop of mediocrity: lick it once and you suck forever"
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