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ABOUT libLASi
=============
libLASi website is located at http://www.unifont.org/lasi/ with the project
page located at http://sourceforge.net/projects/lasi.
libLASi is a library that provides a C++ stream output interface (with
operator<< ) to writing Postscript and Encapsulated Postscript documents
containing any of the world's scripts supported by Unicode 4.0 and the Pango
complex text layout engine. You can use any TrueType or OpenType fonts that
you want. The library accomodates both left-to-right (e.g. most European
languages) as well as right-to-left (e.g. Hebrew, Arabic) scripts, as well
as Complex Text Layout (CTL) scripts such as Devanagari, Bengali, Thai, and
other Indic and Indic-derived scripts. You can include any number of
different scripts or languages in the same document without need for any
special configuration or layout calculation on the programmer's part.
libLASi accepts Unicode strings encoded in the UTF-8 transformation format
which is the de facto standard on Linux and other *nix systems.
Although Postscript printing capability exists in open-source toolkits such
as Gnome and QT, libLASi was designed for projects that are independent of
any one Graphic User Interface (GUI) toolkit or do not even make use of a
GUI interface but still require the ability to produce Postscript output
containing Unicode text.
For installation instructions, see http://www.unifont.org/lasi/
For example programs that uses libLASi, please see the examples directory
located in the install tree at $prefix/share/lasi$version/examples where
$prefix is the installation prefix and $version is the version of lasi
(1.1.0 at the time of writing). An example is provided with such obscure
glyphs they are bound to be missing on most systems (which tests that
libLASi is robust against that situation). Simple and slightly more
extensive examples are provided as well that have more interesting output.
See the file COPYING for terms of copying and re-distribution.
Copyright (C) 2003, 2004, 2006 Larry Siden
Copyright (C) 2008 Ed Trager
Copyright (C) 2008 Ritu Khanna
Copyright (C) 2008 Alan W. Irwin
Copyright (C) 2008 Andrew Ross
Copyright (C) 2008 Werner Smekal
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
Library General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
License along with this library; if not, write to the
Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA.
Original Author:
Larry Siden
4047 Rolling Meadow Lane
Pittsfield Twp., MI 48197-6619, USA
http://umich.edu/~lsiden
mailto:lsiden@gmail.com
Contributors:
Edward H. Trager
ehtrager@umich.edu
http://eyegene.ophthy.med.umich.edu
Ritu Khanna
rituk@umich.edu
Alan W. Irwin
irwin@beluga.phys.uvic.ca
Andrew Ross
andrewross@users.sourceforge.net
Werner Smekal
smekal@iap.tuwien.ac.at
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