[HarfBuzz] Create glyph overview based on a specific font feature

Behdad Esfahbod behdad at behdad.org
Wed Jul 11 14:58:18 PDT 2012


Hi Rolf,

HarfBuzz has the basic support to construct something like what you describe.
 So if you use C/C++, it's easy to do that.  See hb-ot.h and hb-ot-layout.h.
There's also a command-line tool that comes close, but is not exactly what you
want: hb-ot-shape-closure.

behdad

On 06/17/2012 11:01 AM, Rolf Langenhuijzen wrote:
> I'm looking into ways of creating an overview of glyphs that fall into a specific OT feature of a font.
> Eg. an image with all swsh related glyphs, or only ligatures.
> 
> I'm not programming in C/C++, so I'm probably limited into what I can use form Harfbuzz initially to get the needed data of a font.
> I was hoping that was a tool out there that would export glyph ids for example based on some OT feature in a font that I could use to feed into hb-view.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Kind regards,
> Rolf
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