Text Layout Summit - Saturday and Sunday, October 7, 8

We are hoping to bring together parties interested in text layout on FLOSS platforms.

• We are hoping to stream the meeting on audio. Details will be made here when we have them. Join us on IRC on ##fonts on freenode.

audio currently off

UPDATE 2

• We found another room in the Media Lab:

• de Rothschild Room, Second floor (take the elevator, turn left, at the end of the hall)

• Themes and goals include (with no particular order):

From Future Import

• International Text Layout & Typography : The Big And Future Picture [EdTrager]

• Open Discussion on Architecting a unified text layout engine for FLOSS systems [Moderator: EdTrager]

  • Please add ideas for this discussion on the UnifiedTextLayoutEngine page

• Next Generation Font Dialog [EdTrager]

Showcase

• Vertical Pango demystified [BehdadEsfahbod]

• The state of things in Qt [SimonHausmann, Qt]

• DejaVu: Past, present, future [BenLaenen, DenisJacquerye]

• Fontconfig: Past, present, future [KeithPackard]

• New paragraph layouter in Scribus [AndreasVox]

• Open Font License (http://scripts.sil.org/OFL) and the http://unifont.org OFL campaign [EdTrager]

• What else can Graphite do and can that be integrated somehow? [DanielGlassey]

BOFs

• Designing a generic OpenType shaper upon (and to be included in) HarfBuzz, technical and legal issues [BehdadEsfahbod]

• Uniscribe compatible API for e.g. WINE [DanielGlassey]

• How to test layout engines [OwenTaylor]

• Common font testing framework [EdTrager]

Pango/HarfBuzz hacking

• BASE table support in HarfBuzz/Pango

• Integrating Graphite module into Pango [DanielGlassey]

• Advanced typographic OpenType features in the desktop / in Pango

• OpenType language support in Pango

• Rolling a test suite for Pango

Out of agenda, no ownership

• Open Fonts on the OLPC platform (quality, Unicode coverage, hinting, smart features...) [NEEDSOWNER]

• Improving the font design toolkit (fontforge, related utilities, etc) [NEEDSOWNER]

• Merging fontconfig configurations from distros for upstream [NEEDSOWNER]

• New Indic OpenType standard in Vista [NEEDSOWNER]

• Font packaging best practises [NEEDSOWNER]

Sessions have been moved to the no ownership section because no-one has taken ownership of them. They can still be part of the meeting if someone wants to bring them up at the time.

Summit Agenda Schedule

Note Bene: All sessions are 45 minutes long.

Day 0 Friday

• Socializing and Early BOF discussions ...

  • (Add yourself to the Arrivals & Departures page if you want people to know when you'll be around)

Day 1 Saturday

• 09:00 Start of Summit
• 09:15 Intro

• 10:15 /BigPicture

• 11:00 /DejaVu

• 11:45 /OFL

• ==LUNCH BREAK==

• 13:30 /NextGenerationFontDialog

• 15:00 /ScribusParagraphLayouter

• 16:25 /VerticalPango [Behdad Esfahbod] PDF

Day 2 Sunday

• 10:10 /StateOfQt [SimonHausmann]

• 10:20 /AdvancedOpenType [DenisJacquerye]

• 10:53 /HarfBuzzShaper [BehdadEsfahbod]

• 11:38 /WordProcessorsAndDTP [Thomas Zander (KWord)]

• ==LUNCH BREAK==

• 13:55 /FontconfigOverview [KeithPackard]

• 15:08 /TestingLayoutEngines [OwenTaylor] OO.o PDF

• 15:28 /GraphiteAdvanced, also: /UniscribeAPI

• xx:xx UnifiedTextLayoutEngine, Part One: Unified Shaping

• 16:00 ====INTERMISSION BREAK (GNOME SUMMIT MEETING DOWNSTAIRS)====

• xx:xx UnifiedTextLayoutEngine, Part Two: Everything Else

• Review and conclusions 30 mins

Day 3 Monday

• This day will have a working/hacking component to it. Behdad for one will be working on BASE support in Pango as a starting point.

• /HarfBuzzBase

• /PangoOpenType

• /PangoTestSuite

=== currently not slotted

• 17:15 /IndicOpenTypeVista

Audio Casts

Both days are recorded and are available in 5 minute chunks (yuck!) here. Checkout talk start-times to map to audio files.

IRC

An IRC meeting in the channel ##fonts on FreeNode happened for Wed 27th September at 2100UTC.[DanielGlassey] Logs are available here: TextLayoutSummitPrepLog20060928

The followup meeting to work out scheduling details was held on Wed 4th October at 2100UTC. Log will be at /TextLayoutSummitPrepLog20061004.

I suggest we continue using this channel during the summit for remote participation. [NicolasSpalinger]

Mailing lists

• Fontconfig -- Font configuration and customization

• OFL-discuss -- Open review and ongoing discussions around the SIL Open Font License

• DejaVu-fonts -- DejaVu fonts

• Silgraphite-devel -- SILGraphite development

• HarfBuzz -- Common OpenType Layout engine for Qt and Pango (and others perhaps)

Places where text layout is used

• Menus and labels in any widget
• text widgets
• word processors
• DTP apps
• web browsers
• printing

Practical details

• Do we have a specific room?
• Facilities of the room.
• when do we have the room for?
• whiteboard?
• projector?
• can we get a video and tripod for recording?
• audio streaming?
• audio recording if video doesn't work?

Attendees

Confirmed

• BehdadEsfahbod (Pango)

• SimonHausmann (Qt) [Arrives Saturday night]

• ThomasZander (KWord) [Arrives Saturday night]

• BenLaenen (DejaVu)

• DenisJacquerye (DejaVu)

• KeithPackard (fontconfig)

• OwenTaylor (Pango)

• EdTrager (Unifont)

• AndreasVox (Scribus)

• DanielGlassey (SIL) Sat, Sun until 6pm (arrive in Boston on Thur eve)

• MikeFabian (SuSE)

• MarkSteele

To Confirm

• MatthiasClasen (Gtk+)

Remote Attendees

• PeterMoulder

• NicolasSpalinger (SIL) (via IRC)

• ElikaJEtemad (W3C)

Regrets

• LarsKnoll (Qt)

• TomasFrydrych (AbiWord)

• RichardHughes (Inkscape)

• MichaelMeeks (OO.o)

• NicolasSpalinger (SIL)

• DamonChaplin

• WaldoBastian (OSDL)

• PatLam (fontconfig)

• LiamQuin (W3C)

• BuliaByak (Inkscape)

• SimosXenitellis (GNOME)

• HerbertDürr (OO.o)

• EricMader (ICU)

• MikeEmmel (WebKit)

• PeterLinnell (Scribus)

Comments

LiamQuin -- My only plea here is that we continue to move towards supporting the needs of graphic design professionals -- including support for open type layout features, for tracking IPR of fonts, for supporting glyph selection, etc etc...