[HarfBuzz] Using HarfBuzz to get final glyphs

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <200803210219.58386.capparis at free.fr>, Pierre Marchand <capparis at free.fr> writes:

> > But as your case and the case of others illustrate, there is a need
> > for an Open Source library that makes it easy to process
> > OpenType features  -- and possibly do so in a manner quite independent
> > from the usual high-level Pango/Gnome or QT/KDE
> > APIs.  Ideally, such a library would have been fleshed out completely
> > several years ago as part of FreeType, but that obviously did not
> > happen.
> >
> To be honest, I first worked with libotf from m17n project and would have 
> continued if Scribus team would not has stated that  they want to use 
> Harfbuzz. So we can say there is at least one free OpenType library out there 
> even if, from my point of view, raw OpenType processing could be done in 
> Freetype directly.

FYI:

We implemented a pango module using the m17n library that
uses Harbuzz via Pango API.  Behdad said that the module
will be included in Pango itself in the comming version.

At the same time, we implemented a code that directly uses
Harfbuzz to drive OTF features for various scritps such as
Indic, Thai, etc.  But, as it was told that the Harbuzz API
was not yet fixed and it's too early to work on such a
feature, that work is suspened at the moment.

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Kenichi Handa
handa at ni.aist.go.jp