On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 12:57:30PM +0200, Lumidify Productions wrote:
> On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 10:25:55AM +0000, sylvain.bertrand_AT_gmail.com wrote:
> > - harfbuzz, the _only_ unicode layout engine which has an interface changing
> > all the time, and a brain damaged implementation. I did a C partial port
> > from c++, and I can tell you about it is that the guys behind this code are
> > trash. All GFX toolkits are dependent on it, all web engines are dependent on
> > it, that for unicode layout computation.
>
> Hi, I just wanted to mention that there _is_ another layout engine,
> graphite (http://graphite.sil.org, https://github.com/silnrsi/graphite), but
> there is a different mentality behind it (all the layout data is included
> in the font itself), and it also is C++.
You must use graphite specific font format. And as far as I can remember as a
c++ ABI only (the worst of the worst).
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Sylvain
Received on Sat May 27 2017 - 14:38:11 CEST