ABOUT libLASi
=============

libLASi is hosted on http://www.unifont.org

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 the INSTALL file.

For an example programs that uses libLASi, please see
the examples directory. Both a simple and a slightly more extensive
example are provided.

See the file COPYING for terms of copying and re-distribution.

Copyright (C) 2003, 2004, 2006 by Larry Siden

    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