test infrastructure ideas appreciated ... - layout tests ...

[Michael Meeks]

	I'm no expert on the current state here, but my feeling is that there
are a lot of document / chart layout issues that are a real problem to
regression test.

	I imagine that funding an investigation of the best of breed of
whatever we have, plus some combination of custom fonts,
built-in-everything (including freetype, harfbuz), no system hyphenation
data etc. etc. and basebmp rendering to ensure consistency across
platforms (& so the widest default reach) -might- get us to a place that
people can routinely run (at least on Linux) some layout tests (?) -
assuming we can find some way to reasonably describe workable and
maintainable constraints for that.

	Thoughts much appreciated ;-)

		Michael.

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