Bug#617718: ITP: libgraphite2-2.0.0 -- a "smart font" rendering engine -- library

[Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>

* Package name    : libgraphite2-2.0.0
  Version         : 0.9.3
  Upstream Author : SIL International
* URL             : http://sf.net/projects/silgraphite
* License         : LGPL
  Programming Lang: C++
  Description     : a "smart font" rendering engine -- library

 Graphite 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
 extensability. Its purpose is to help meet the needs of a very large number
 of "minority language" communities for local extensibility of complex script
 behaviors.
 .
 The behavior of the 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
 grcompiler.
 .
 This package contains the shared library.

This seems to be the successor of silgraphite2.0(sic!) which is libgraphite3 and
LibreOffice is going to switch to graphite2.

Daniel, would you want to (co-)maintain it? I have a package (on upstreams
Debian packaging fixed up) here already :-)

Grüße/Regards,

Rene