On 8 Mar 2016, at 8:39 AM, Norbert Thiebaud <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 10:22 AM, Thorsten Behrens > <[email protected]> wrote: >> I'm afraid we're in for that regardless. Norbert, Khaled, Tor IIRC & a >> number of other hackers all came to the conclusion that the vcl font >> API / the way Writer is doing layout is in serious need for rework, > > My conclusion was that writer trying to mess with the layout directly > is an heresy > vcl should be doing the layout and writer and other may want to query > information about it (like the position of things for caret handling > purpose etc.. but should _never_ try to 'tweak' the positoing of > individual glyphs, even less via positioning individual character (to > the the n-n relation with glyphes) > > I do think that the first step is to push the layouting tweaks/hacks > out of writer and into vcl itself, > make dxarray read-only, > and _then_ we are free to implement/improve stuff in vcl as desired. > > Norbert > _______________________________________________ > LibreOffice mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
Do you have any code pointers where writer modifies the layout? Chris _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
