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Re: [ft-devel] harfbuzz experience anyone ?
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Nicolas Rougier |
Subject: |
Re: [ft-devel] harfbuzz experience anyone ? |
Date: |
Fri, 6 Jan 2012 08:53:18 +0100 |
Thanks. For the record, I posted some (still buggy) code to the HarfBuzz
mailing list.
I will post updates on the HarfBuzz list.
Nicolas
On Jan 5, 2012, at 22:49 , Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> On 01/05/2012 04:13 AM, Nicolas Rougier wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>
> Hi Nicolas,
>
>> Does anybody has some experience in using the harfbuzz
>> (http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/HarfBuzz) library with freetype ? I
>> cloned the old version (harfbuzz.old, because the new one is not stable nor
>> documented) but I did not find running examples. The contrib directory has
>> some harfbuzz-freetype.c but I did not find how to actually use it and I
>> would like to provide shaping for displaying font in freetype-gl
>> (http://code.google.com/p/freetype-gl/).
>
> I actually suggest that you get the new version. Checkout the hb-shape tool,
> it gives you ideas how to you it.
>
>
>> Ideally, I would like to write a function that takes a font filename, a font
>> size and a string to be rendered and the function would return all the
>> required glyphs codepoint and probably the advance information (but since
>> I'm no specialist, I'm not sure this even makes sense).
>
> You can do that. But note that it would only work for left-to-right
> languages.
>
> behdad
>
>>
>> Nicolas
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