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Re: [ft-devel] Re: About Gsub table in opentype.


From: 丁力
Subject: Re: [ft-devel] Re: About Gsub table in opentype.
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 08:59:55 +0800

There is a message in the HarfBuzz website:
"There are no releases available for download yet, but we expect to start 0.x release soon and aim for a 1.0 release with stable API around March 2011."

2010/11/8 Behdad Esfahbod <address@hidden>
You need HarfBuzz.

On 11/06/10 04:36, 丁力 wrote:
> OK.
> Thanks.
>
> do you know any other small open source library can do this job?
>
> i just want to display the vertical characters, the layout engine is to
> big for me.
>
> 2010/11/6 Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>>
>
>
>     > i want to display Japanese characters in vertical mode.  in some
>     > opentype font, i only can get some bracket glyphs in vertical mode
>     > by gsub table such as the "MS Mincho".  i found that it seems no
>     > APIs in freetype to translate the horizontal glyph to vertical mode
>     > by gsub.
>     >
>     > does anyone can tell me how to do it?
>
>     You can't do that directly.  It's not the job of FreeType.  Instead,
>     you should use a higher-level library like ICU, Pango, or Qt to apply
>     OpenType features to text strings.
>
>
>        Werner
>
>
>
>
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