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     11   <title>Readme file for the ICU LayoutEngine demo</title>
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     15   <h2>What is the layout demo?</h2>
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     17   <p>The layout demo displays a paragraph of text that is laid out using the
     18   LayoutEngine. There are two versions of this demo, "layout.exe" which runs on
     19   Windows 2000, and "gnomelayout" which runs on Linux. Both programs read a
     20   file containing the Unicode text to display, and a file that says which font
     21   to use to display each script.</p>
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     23   <h2>How do I build the layout demo?</h2>First, you need to build ICU,
     24   including the LayoutEngine.
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     26   <p>On Windows, the layout project should be listed as a dependency of all, so
     27   layout will build when you build all. If it doesn't for some reason, just
     28   select the layout project in the project toolbar and build it.</p>
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     30   <p>On Linux systems, you need to add the "--enable-layout=yes" option when
     31   you invoke the runConfigureICU script. When you've done that, layout should
     32   build when you do "make all install"</p>
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     34   <p>To build the demo on Windows, just open the layout project in
     35   &lt;icu&gt;\source\samples\layout and build it.</p>
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     37   <p>On Linux systems, connect to &lt;top-build-dir&gt;/samples/layout and do
     38   "make all". To build the layout demo on Linux, you'll need the
     39   gnome-libs-devel and freetype-devel packages, which should be part of your
     40   Linux distribution. The demo uses the FreeType 1 library, and the make files
     41   assume that the FreeType header files are in /usr/include/freetype1, and that
     42   the freetype library is /usr/lib/libttf.so. This is how RedHat Linux 7.2
     43   installs FreeType 1. If your system is different, you may need to add sym
     44   links to where the files are stored on your system, or modify
     45   &lt;top-src-dir&gt;/samples/layout/Makefile.in to reference the files
     46   correctly for your system.</p>
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     48   <h2>How do I run the demo?</h2>
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     50   <p>Before you can run the demo, you'll need to get the fonts it uses. For
     51   legal reasons, we can't include these fonts with ICU, but you can download
     52   them from the web. To do this, you'll need access to a computer running
     53   Windows. Here's how to get the fonts:</p>
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     55   <p>First, download the Thai font. Go to <a href=
     56   "http://www.freelang.net/fonts/index.php">freelang.net</a> and
     57   click on the link for the Courier Thai font. This will download a .ZIP file.
     58   Extract the Courpro.ttf font. On Windows, copy this font file to your
     59   Fonts folder (note the name of the font after it is installed), on Linux, copy this font file to the directory from which
     60   you'll run the layout demo.</p>
     61 
     62   <p>Next is the Hindi font. Download the font from <a href=
     63   "http://www.ffonts.net/Raghindi.font.download">Raghindi</a>. On Linux, you can download the font into the
     64   directory from which you'll run the layout demo. On Windows, you'll need to
     65   install it in your Fonts folder.</p>
     66 
     67   <p>There's still one more font to get, the Code2000 Unicode font. Go to James
     68   Kass' <a href="http://www.code2000.net/">Unicode Support In Your
     69   Browser</a> page and click on the link that says "Click Here to download
     70   Code2000 shareware demo Unicode font." This will download a .ZIP file which
     71   contains CODE2000.TTF and CODE2000.HTM. Expand this .ZIP file. If you're
     72   going to run the layout demo on Linux, put the CODE2000.TTF file in the
     73   directory from which you'll run the demo. On Windows, copy the font to your
     74   fonts folder.</p>
     75 
     76   <p><strong>Note:</strong> The Code2000 font is shareware. If you want to use
     77   it for longer than a trial period, you should send a shareware fee to James.
     78   Directions for how to do this are in CODE2000.HTM.</p>
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     80   <p>Be sure that your FontMap.GDI (on Windows) or FontMap.Gnome file (on Linux) contains accurate
     81   font names for each script type.  For example, the following is a valid FontMap.GDI (assuming you have the correct fonts):
     82   <br><br>DEVANAGARI: Raghindi<br>THAI: Courier MonoThai<br>DEFAULT: Code2000<br><br>Note that only the Code2000 default font is strictly necessary,
     83   and that the other two can simply be commented out by a '#' if you do not wish to use them.</p>
     84 
     85   <p>Also note that the FontMap and the sample.txt files have to be in the same directory as the layout executable.</p>
     86 
     87   <p>That's it! Now all you have to do is run letest (CTRL+F5 in Visual C++, or
     88   "./gnomelayout" in Linux)</p>
     89 
     90   <h2>How can I customize the layout demo?</h2>
     91 
     92   <p>The text that the layout demo displays is read from the file "Sample.txt."
     93   You can change the text by editing this file using a Unicode-aware text
     94   editor. (it is in UTF8 format with a BOM as the first character; the demo can
     95   also read UTF16 and UTF32 format files) Remember that the text will be
     96   displayed in a single paragraph; you can include CR and LF characters in the
     97   text, but they will be ignored.</p>
     98 
     99   <p>If you add scripts to the text other than Arabic, Devanagari, Latin or
    100   Thai, you'll need to find a font which contains the characters in that
    101   script, and add an entry to the FontMap file ("FontMap.GDI" on Windows,
    102   "FontMap.Gnome" on Linux) This file contains a single entry per line. Each
    103   entry contains a script name followed by a colon, and then a font name.</p>
    104 
    105   <p>Here is the list of legal script names:</p>
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    107   <blockquote>
    108     <tt>ARABIC</tt><br />
    109     <tt>ARMENIAN</tt><br />
    110     <tt>BENGALI</tt><br />
    111     <tt>BOPOMOFO</tt><br />
    112     <span style="font-family: monospace;">BUHID</span><br />
    113     <tt>CANADIAN_ABORIGINAL</tt><br />
    114     <tt>CHEROKEE</tt><br />
    115     <tt>CYRILLIC</tt><br />
    116     <tt>DESERET</tt><br />
    117     <tt>DEVANAGARI</tt><br />
    118     <tt>ETHIOPIC</tt><br />
    119     <tt>GEORGIAN</tt><br />
    120     <tt>GOTHIC</tt><br />
    121     <tt>GREEK</tt><br />
    122     <tt>GUJARATI</tt><br />
    123     <tt>GURMUKHI</tt><br />
    124     <tt>HAN</tt><br />
    125     <tt>HANGUL</tt><br />
    126     <span style="font-family: monospace;">HANUNOO</span><br />
    127     <tt>HEBREW</tt><br />
    128     <tt>HIRAGANA</tt><br />
    129     <tt>KANNADA</tt><br />
    130     <tt>KATAKANA</tt><br />
    131     <tt>KHMER</tt><br />
    132     <tt>LATIN</tt><br />
    133     <tt>MALAYALAM</tt><br />
    134     <tt>MONGOLIAN</tt><br />
    135     <tt>MYANMAR</tt><br />
    136     <tt>OGHAM</tt><br />
    137     <tt>OLD_ITALIC</tt><br />
    138     <tt>ORIYA</tt><br />
    139     <tt>RUNIC</tt><br />
    140     <tt>SINHALA</tt><br />
    141     <tt>SYRIAC</tt><br />
    142     <span style="font-family: monospace;">TAGALOG<br />
    143     TAGBANWA</span><br />
    144     <tt>TAMIL</tt><br />
    145     <tt>TELUGU</tt><br />
    146     <tt>THAANA</tt><br />
    147     <tt>THAI</tt><br />
    148     <tt>TIBETAN</tt><br />
    149     <tt>YI<br /></tt>
    150   </blockquote>
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    152   <p>You can also use the script name "DEFAULT" to represent all scripts which
    153   you don't explicitly list in the FontMap file.</p>
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    155   <p>On Windows use the full name of the font as it appears in the Windows
    156   Fonts folder (eg. "Times New Roman") On Linux, use the file name of the font
    157   file (e.g. "Times.TTF") If you're running on Windows, you'll need to install
    158   the new fonts in your Fonts folder. If you're running on Linux, put them in
    159   the directory from which you'll run the demo.</p><br />
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