[Haskell-cafe] ANN: diagrams 0.4

[Jason Dagit]

On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Brent Yorgey <byorgey at seas.upenn.edu> wrote:
> I am pleased to announce the release of version 0.4 of diagrams, a
> full-featured framework and embedded domain-specific language for
> declarative drawing.
>
> The last announcement was of the 0.1 release; there have been quite a
> few changes and improvements since then, including:
>
> -   A new website including a gallery of examples:
>
>      http://projects.haskell.org/diagrams/gallery.html
>
> -   A new comprehensive user manual with lots of illustrative
>    examples:
>
>      http://projects.haskell.org/manual/diagrams-manual.html
>
> -   New primitive shapes: rounded rectangles, wedges, and a new
>    flexible API for generating polygons
>
> -   Cubic splines
>
> -   Basic text support

What do you use for text support?  I know at one point you were
interested in my freetype2 binding (which is still very raw and
immature), but you must be using gtk for font loading and rendering?

Jason