Re: [ft-devel] Getting the kerning pairs in under O(n*n)

[Emile van Bergen]

Hi,

On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 02:38:40PM -0700, Vinnie Falco wrote:

> > Please don't forget that FreeType's job is to render glyphs, nothing
> > else.
> 
> My opinion is that since FreeType opens the font file, it might as
> well process everything that is in it.

Might the suggestion that FreeType could perhaps /parse and expose/ all tables
without necessarily /handling/ all of them, help in this discussion? 

Analogous to Adam's audio/video example, could it make sense for FreeType to
implement the audio/video container demuxers (table parsers) and the video
codecs (glyph rendering), but not the audio codecs (text layout)?

(Aside, I don't hear anyone mentioning m17nlib for text layout these days, even
though it aims to handle all aspects of all current unicode scripts. I've also
found its API for that quite nice and elegant. Weird is that I see it most
often in the context of multilingual input alone. Does it have pronounced
disadvantages compared to Harfbuzz or Pango that I'm missing?)

Kind regards,


Emile.

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