Gunnar Evermann <ge204(a)cus.cam.ac.uk> writes:
On 1 Jul 1999, Jan Vroonhof wrote:
> "Uwe Brauer" <oub(a)eucmos.sim.ucm.es> writes:
>
> > As I understand it this would keep the text, written from the
> > left-to-the-right but displayed vice versa. Now it is supposed that
> > GNUemacs 20.4 will have something like this, but it is not clear when
> > it will be released.
>
> Are you sure about the version number?
>
> Eli Za????? said in March that he was thinking about it. Progress
> must have been extremely fast then.
didn't Handa-san actually demo this?? I seem to remember seeing it.
I don't remember seeing it, but I missed part of handa-san's demo that
day, so may simply have been out of the room.
> It is more likely they meant 20.5 which is going to contain the
new
> end-to-all-problems mystical display engine.
:-) Has anyone actually ever seen that thing? Is there maybe even
something like design document available somewhere (e.g. on the "secret
FTP site")? Or is writing stuff like that just not the way FSF Emacs
development is done?
I've seen it. :) If you want to actually see some of the code that takes
advantage of it, look at 'font.el' in the latest Emacs/W3 releases. It
works just fine with the new redisplay engine, which is really quite sexy.
I haven't worked much with the graphics stuff, but I need try and patch PNG
support into it in the next month or so.
I'm not supposed to give out the URL to the source to public lists, but if
anyone wants it, lemme know and I can email it to you privately. Gerd
Moellmann is the one working on it.
-Bill P.