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

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <4CE433AE.6010102 at behdad.org>, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at behdad.org> writes:

> > I really hope to use libm17n's shaping engine from harfbuzz.
> > A few years ago, I asked you to include libm17n-based
> > shaping module in Pango, but there have been no progress,
> > perhaps because Pango is going to use harfbuzz's shaping
> > engines, right?  And, when I checked harfbuzz code a while
> > ago, it seems that shaping engines are builtin (i.e. not by
> > loadable modules).  Don't you have a plan of making it
> > possible that harfbuzz can use the other loadable shaping
> > engine?

> For HarfBuzz, I do plan to support other backends.  The final design will
> perhaps be a bit different, but it will be coming.

That's a good news.

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Kenichi Handa
handa at m17n.org