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## 2007 Text Layout Summit
### Summary
**When:** July 4-6, 2007
**Where:** aKademy Conference, Glasgow, Scotland. Venue: Strathclyde University.
**Accomodation:** [[TextLayout2007Accomodation|TextLayout2007Accomodation]]
**Attendees:** [[TextLayout2007Attendees|TextLayout2007Attendees]]
### Details
This year's Text Layout Summit is planned for Wednesday, July 4 through Friday, July 6, 2007 as part of the [[aKademy|http://akademy.kde.org/]] meeting in Glasgow, Scotland. The venue will be at Strathclyde University.
We are in BOF 3 which is room 10.01D on the 10th floor of Livingston Tower.
## Planning Meeting on IRC Thursday 2007.06.28
Meeting on Thursday 2007.06.28 at 2100UST [[TimeZones|http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2007&month=6&day=28&hour=21&min=0&sec=0]] in the channel ##fonts on [[FreeNode|FreeNode]].
## Presentations & Papers
Presentation are available online at [[unifont.org Text Layout 2007|http://unifont.org/TextLayout2007/]] page.
If you are planning to present a paper, please have a draft ready for posting on the web by June 30th, 2007. Send papers to ed dot trager at gmail dot com.
Acceptable presentation formats include [[OpenOffice|OpenOffice]] OASIS .odp, PDF, and XHTML.
## Agenda Items
* **[[HarfBuzz|HarfBuzz]]**. [[HarfBuzz|HarfBuzz]] is being designed as a unified [[OpenType|OpenType]] Text Shaper Library for the Free Desktop:
* **Current Status**. Simon Hausmann & Behdad Esfahbod will present on the current state of [[HarfBuzz|HarfBuzz]] development.
* **Next Steps.** We will have extended discussions on the development direction of [[HarfBuzz|HarfBuzz]].
* **AAT**. Lars Knoll wants to eventually have AAT functionality included in [[HarfBuzz|HarfBuzz]].
* **Disseminating [[HarfBuzz|HarfBuzz]]**. Discussion on what do we need to do to get major players like [[OpenOffice|OpenOffice]] and [[FireFox|FireFox]] interested in using [[HarfBuzz|HarfBuzz]] for text layout in the future?
* **Coding.** We also expect to devote time at the Summit to hacking on [[HarfBuzz|HarfBuzz]].
* **M17n Multilingualization Library**:
* **Presentation** by Kenichi Handa.
* **Discussion** on including access to m17n functionality from within [[HarfBuzz|HarfBuzz]].
* **Graphite**:
* **Presentation** by Sharon Correll, Graphite developer from SIL.
* **Discussion ** on providing access to Graphite functionality from within [[HarfBuzz|HarfBuzz]].
* **ICU**:
* **Design Features** of ICU's Text Layout Engine. Presentation by Eric Mader.
* **Discussion** on what features and design aspects of ICU's layout engine ought to be incorporated into the [[HarfBuzz|HarfBuzz]] design.
* **IM-Bus**: IM-Bus is a new input method mediator being designed by James Su, the author of SCIM. Presentation prepared by James Su.
* **IPA Fonts and Licensing**: Presentation prepared by Hiroshi Miura of IPA Japan.
## Draft Schedule
### Tuesday July 3rd
* Evening get-together for early arrivals
### Wednesday July 4th
* 8:30 - 9:00 Coffee/ Setup / Seating
* 9:00 - 9:30 Intro / Keynote
* 9:30-10:30 Series of "Lightning Talks":
* OFL'ed Font Update
* IPA Font Update
* IM-BUS
* Fontima (Trager)
* Open Font Design Toolkit Update (yosch)
* OFLB (Open Font Library) Update (eimai)
* 10:30-10:45 Break
* 10:45-11:15 CJK Unifonts Project Outlook ([[Arne Götje)|http://unifont.org/TextLayout2007/presentations/ArneGotjeCJKUnifontsProjectOutlookJuneJuly2007.pdf]]
* 11:15-12:00 "Pan Unicode" Font Discussion (Ben Laenen)
* 12:00-13:30 Lunch
* 13:30-14:15 Design Features in ICU (Eric Mader)
* 14:15-15:00 State of [[HarfBuzz|HarfBuzz]] (including AAT integration) - Simon Hausmann with Behdad when he arrives
* 15:00-15:45 Graphite - Sharon Correll, SIL
* 15:45-16:30 m17n Font Layout Table: Knowledge Base for Complex Text - Kenichi Handa
* 16:30-16:45 New [[OpenType|OpenType]] features in Pango (Brief talk by Behdad)
* 16:45-18:00 - [[HarfBuzz|HarfBuzz]] Development and Integration Discussion
* 18:00+ Continue discussions over dinner ...
### Thursday July 5th
I think it would be good to have some social time on the day trip in the afternoon [[http://akademy.kde.org/codingmarathon/day-trip.php|http://akademy.kde.org/codingmarathon/day-trip.php]] [[[DanielGlassey|DanielGlassey]]]
* 08:00 Early Start to accomodate day trip ...
* 09:00 - 12:00 [[HarfBuzz|HarfBuzz]] Unified Text Layout Engine Design Discussion
* 12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
* 13;00 Bonny Banks Day Trip: Busses leave Glasgow
* 17:00 Barbeque on the beach
* 20:00 Return
### Friday July 6th
* Text Layout Summit Coding Sessions
## Relevant Mailing Lists
* [[HarfBuzz|http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/harfbuzz/]] -- Common [[OpenType|OpenType]] Layout engine for the Free Desktop
* [[OFL-discuss|http://openlists.sil.org/mailman/listinfo/ofl-discuss]] -- Open review and ongoing discussions around the SIL Open Font License
* [[DejaVu-fonts|https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dejavu-fonts]] -- [[DejaVu|DejaVu]] fonts
* [[Fontconfig|http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig]] -- Font configuration and customization
* [[Silgraphite-devel|https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/silgraphite-devel]] -- SIL Graphite development
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