<div dir="ltr">Thanks for the quick reply.<div><br></div><div>It sounds like implementing BASE for HarfBuzz might be a nice project for somebody. As you probably know, it's needed for CSS Level 3 Line Layout: <a href="http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-linebox/">http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-linebox/</a>.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I've read the spec several times over the years and I believe I understand it: the GPOS/GSUB stuff you've already implemented seems much harder to me. I was thinking of something like this for the API:</div>
<div><br></div><div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">hb_bool_t</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">hb_font_get_extents (hb_font_t *font,</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace"> hb_direction_t direction,</font></div>
<div><font face="courier new, monospace"> hb_script_t script,</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace"> hb_language_t language,</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace"> const hb_feature_t *features,</font></div>
<div><font face="courier new, monospace"> unsigned int num_features,</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace"> hb_position_t *min_extent,</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace"> hb_position_t *max_extent);</font></div>
<div><br></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">typedef enum {</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace"> HB_BASELINE_ROMAN = HB_TAG ('r', 'o', 'm', 'n'),</font></div>
<div><font face="courier new, monospace"> HB_BASELINE_IDEOGRAPHIC = HB_TAG ('i', 'd', 'e', 'o'),</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace"> HB_BASELINE_MATHEMATICAL = HB_TAG ('m', 'a', 't', 'h'),</font></div>
<div><font face="courier new, monospace"> HB_BASELINE_HANGING = HB_TAG ('h', 'a', 'n', 'g'),</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace"> /* etc */</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace"> HB_BASELINE_INVALID = HB_TAG_NONE</font></div>
<div><font face="courier new, monospace">} hb_baseline_t;</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">hb_baseline_t</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">hb_face_get_baseline (hb_face_t *face,</font></div>
<div><font face="courier new, monospace"> hb_direction_t direction,</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace"> hb_script_t script);</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace"><br>
</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">hb_bool_t</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">hb_font_get_baseline_position (hb_font_t *font,</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace"> hb_direction_t direction,</font></div>
<div><font face="courier new, monospace"> hb_baseline_t baseline,</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace"> hb_position_t *position /* OUT */);</font></div>
<div><br></div><div>Does that look roughly in the right direction to you?<br></div></div><div><br></div><div>Another way to do it would be to set the dominant font and script on the hb_buffer, and then hb_shape could deal with the baseline adjustments. This would be a bit easier to use, but I suspect would provide insufficient flexibility for some clients.</div>
<div><br></div><div>James</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 2:12 AM, Behdad Esfahbod <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:behdad@behdad.org" target="_blank">behdad@behdad.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On 13-08-21 07:22 AM, James Clark wrote:<br>
> Does HarfBuzz do anything with the OpenType BASE table?<br>
<br>
</div>It doesn't.<br>
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> If not, how in the<br>
> grand scheme of things does the BASE table get used?<br>
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</div>BASE is not used in the Free Software text stack at all. Every time I read<br>
the spec to try to understand how to implement it I got confused and gave up.<br>
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behdad<br>
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> James<br>
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