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

[Behdad Esfahbod]

[+harfbuzz list, Kenichi Handa]

On 11/06/10 05:22, mpsuzuki at hiroshima-u.ac.jp wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> To parse OpenType tables at low level and
> obtain the substituted glyph index, libotf
> might be useful.
> 
> 	http://www.m17n.org/libotf/

Interesting.  I had totally forgotten about libotf.  I hope now that new
harfbuzz is in a usable state Kenichi abandons the libotf and helps with harfbuzz.

behdad


> It does not provide the database of the
> tags of script, language and features, and
> no dependency/conflict checker of each
> features. So libotf client programmer have
> to read OpenType spec and choose appropriate
> script/language/feature to apply to the serie
> of the glyph index.
> 
> Regards,
> mpsuzuki
> 
> On Sat, 06 Nov 2010 09:50:28 +0100 (CET)
> Werner LEMBERG <wl at gnu.org> wrote:
> 
>>
>>> do you know any other small open source library can do this job?
>>
>> No.
>>
>>> i just want to display the vertical characters, the layout engine is
>>> to big for me.
>>
>> Then load the GSUB table with FT_Load_Sfnt_Table and parse the data by
>> yourself.  This is rather straightforward.
>>
>>
>>    Werner
>>
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