Bug#363105: ITP: pangographite - SILGraphite support for pango
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Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Description:
SILGraphite is a system that can be used to create and use "smart fonts"
capable of displaying writing systems with various complex behaviors,
such as: contextual shaping, ligatures, reordering, split glyphs,
bidirectionality, stacking diacritics and complex positioning.
This library was designed and developed by the NRSI (Non-Roman Script
Initiative) within SIL International (www.sil.org) to act as a
complement to other smart font rendering technologies with limited
practical local extensibility. Its purpose is to help meet the needs of
a very large number of "minority language" communities for local
extensibility of complex script behaviours.
The behaviour of the SILGraphite rendering engine for a given writing
system is specified through extra tables added to a TrueType font. These
tables are generated by compiling a GDL (Graphite Description Language)
source file into a font using gdlcomp.
This package contains a pango module so that apps that use pango get
graphite capabilities and a support library for that module.
Once the graphite pango module is in pango core this package will only
contain the support library.
License: LGPL
Website: http://graphite.sil.org
Project page: http://www.sf.net/projects/silgraphite
Svn repo: svn://scripts.sil.org/graphite/graphite/trunk
For the graphite module to be detected and used by pango when it is
appropriate the graphite module must be at the end of the list of
modules in /etc/pango/pango.modules
The solution I have found is to divert /usr/sbin/update-pango-modules
and /usr/bin/pango-querymodules from libpango1.0-common and provide an
implementation that:
For update-pango-modules instead of using find to get the list of
modules (which is not recommended by upstream), just run pango-querymodules
The custom pango-querymodules looks for subdirectories below the main
dir and if they contain modules they will be added after the main directory.
The patch for this has been submitted at
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=323661 and will be updated
with the latest patch in a mo. Once(if) this gets accepted upstream the
diversion will be removed.
Daniel
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