Re: Use Core Text for Cocoa Emacs

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Adrian Robert <address@hidden> wrote:

> Wang Ling <an00na <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > 
> > Is it possible and advantageous to use Core Text for Cocoa Emacs?
> > I'm just wondering whether it is a practical and meaningful thing to do for
> Mac Emacsers.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Overall it's probably a wash at the present time.  Using it would not result 
> in
> any immediate user-visible changes by itself and might make supporting Tiger
> difficult.  (The framework is there on Tiger, but it's private, and I'm not 
> sure
> how mature compared to the CG APIs.)  But on the other hand, it exposes a bit
> more of the guts of the Text system than earlier APIs, which should make 
> support
> of advanced font backend features easier.  The cost here would be forking this
> code to keep GNUstep supported.  (Right now CG (vs. DPS on GNUstep) is only 
> used
> at the very lowest level for emacs rendering, so the split code is small.)
> 

What about accessibility -- which of these would work better with
Voiceover?


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