[cairo] Re: Glyph extents API

[Keith Packard]

On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 20:21 +0000, Pete Shinners wrote:

> I'm completely unframiliar with this part of the API. But the first thing that
> jumps out at me is pair-kerning. The extent of "Wo" is not equal to "W" + "o"
> for many fonts.

cairo is not involved in layout; the multiple-glyph API simply unions
the bounding boxes for the glyphs together assuming they are set
adjacently using the default spacing for each letter.

Layout is done above the cairo layer by libraries like pango.

-keith

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