[HarfBuzz] Recursive ligatures - Devanagari shaping

Pravin Satpute psatpute at redhat.com
Wed Jan 5 22:36:24 PST 2011


On 12/15/2010 10:27 AM, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> On 12/14/10 23:52, Pravin Satpute wrote:
>> On 12/15/2010 09:32 AM, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
>>> On 12/14/10 06:06, Tom Hacohen wrote:
>>>> I wonder, am I doing anything wrong? is the font bad (I doubt it)? or is
>>>> harfbuzz currently lacking recursive shaping?
>>> New harfbuzz currently doesn't support Arabic.  That will be coming in a month
>>> or two.
>> Do let me know if any help i can do in adding indic support. I am quite
>> interested in it.
>> But not getting proper start.
> Thanks Pravin.  The first step is to get some code to base everything off of.
>   We can either look into porting either the Pango or HarfBuzz.old Indic shaper
> to the new HarfBuzz, or base it on Jonathan Kew's rewritten shaper.  Jonathan,
> any idea which one we should look into?
Hi Jonathan,

    appreciate your guidance on this, did you hosted your initial code 
anywhere?

Thanks,
Pravin S



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