I just reported a a bug in #pango/#gtk that causes my program#paps to insert redundant hyphens when turning source code into pdf. I'm ignoring this bug right now and will still create a new version in the next few days.

Been comparing APIs for reworking the text support in #GIMP - currently uses #Pango; some font names come out wrong, no "use this font file" support. But can maybe work around both things (thanks, Behdad's blog) and add COLR support too, by rewriting fonts on the fly.

GTK folks: do you know of a way (or "the right way") to know if my app/a widget is actually *using* the font specified? For example, if my CSS says to use font "Foo," but that font isn't installed?

I poked a little bit at PangoFontDescription but it looks like it will return the requested font description for the context and not actually what's being used.

#GTK #GNOME #Pango #Vala #Linux

@mtsofonea et @flodebarre interviewés par Louis Valleau du Figaro sur la logique de nomenclature des variants (pourquoi les lettres grecques se sont arrêtées et que signifie XBB.1.5 et le système #pango).

https://www.lefigaro.fr/sciences/covid-19-bq-1-1-bf-7-xbb-1-5-pourquoi-les-nouveaux-variants-n-ont-ils-pas-de-nom-plus-precis-20230107

@inkscape

One thing to bare in mind, #inkscape can not currently use these fonts on canvas because of restrictions in #pango and #cairo disallow fonts from memory.

Though I really hope we can resolve this as it really hurts the svg fonts features.

SARS-CoV-2 reference tree with four representative sequences per PANGO lineage:

http://www.phyloxml.org/archaeopteryx-js/sars_cov_3.html

#phylogenetics #sars2 #sarscov2 #pango #lineages #evolution #voc

#GNOME tenia un problema històric amb la ela geminada en la biblioteca #Pango, afectant a totes les aplicacions, des-de el 2002!
Gràcies a la tenacitat de Jordi Mas de #softcatalà, el mantenidor de Pango Matthias Clasen li ha acceptat avui un canvi que ho soluciona.

Jordi Mas ho explica en aquest fil:

https://nitter.net/jordimash/status/1453584804688154625

https://github.com/Yoxem/uahli/blob/main/src/main.rs
玩具一個，#Harfbuzz 和 #Pango 做成的文字渲染轉 pdf 的東西。
當然離真正的排版引擎還差得遠。

@unflocked@mastodon.social

And a belated thanks to our upstream co-developers!

#gtk #scour #gitlab #python #poppler #document_foundation #ninja #cmake #pango and all the others!

If you've just updated your #Linux distro to realise that your fav bitmap #font you use in all your GTK applications does not work any more, then don't waste an hour of confusion, like me, fiddling around with fontconfig, etc.

#Pango has just dropped the support for bitmap fonts.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pango/-/issues/386

The only workaround is to convert the bitmap font to #OpenType Bitmap format with #fontforge. Some Linux distros have started to package their popular bitmap fonts (like Terminus) in this format.

(#FreeBSD not affected yet, still using Pango 1.42 at time of posting)

Incidentally, gave up on trying to build #Gimp 10, couldn't get pango to configure, even though I built and installed #cairo, #Pango wouldn't admit that it existed.