Re: SVG hack for display engine

[Anand Tamariya <atamariya@gmail.com>]

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In this hack, the elisp code navigates from (window-start) to (window-end)
reading a line of text from the associated buffer and displays the same in
SVG. I've used (read-event) and (lookup-key) to allow for key translations
for navigation commands. Hopefully with a tighter integration, all of this
will not be required.

Positioning of the point is one open area. We would need the bounding box
of text for accurate positioning. We have three sources for this - librsvg,
pango or the current display engine.

On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 6:15 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > From: Anand Tamariya <atamariya@gmail.com>
> > Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2021 08:09:22 +0530
> >
> > How about using SVG for rendering in the display engine?
>
> Please elaborate what you mean by that.  How would the display engine
> work under this idea?
>
> The image you posted doesn't tell enough to understand what's
> involved, and thus it is very hard to think about possible
> implications of such a change.
>
> Thanks.
>

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