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