[Haskell-beginners] Library for rendering text

Stefan Risberg steffenomak at gmail.com
Wed Oct 4 13:32:36 UTC 2017


You have Cairo and gi-cairo, I think that gi-cairo are autogenerated and
from my experience a bit of a pain to set up.

It also depends on if you use stack, cabal or nix of course for your
project. But I think both are mostly equal

On 4 Oct 2017 13:46, "Jona Ekenberg" <saikyun at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for your reply Stefan.
>
> When I look for cairo bindings for Haskell I find several different ones.
> Is there any one considered "the best" or most current? It does seem like a
> suitable combination.
>
> Den 4 okt. 2017 12:49 em skrev "Stefan Risberg" <steffenomak at gmail.com>:
>
> Wouldn't pango with Cairo be good combination?
>
> On 4 Oct 2017 10:53 AM, "Jona Ekenberg" <saikyun at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear mailing list,
>>
>> I want to create a text editor, preferably using open gl to render text.
>> Are there any easy to use libraries for this? I like the gloss library, but
>> the functions for rendering text seems quite basic. I could add upon this,
>> but I figured I should ask here first; are there any existing libraries
>> suitable for rendering text?
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Jona
>>
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