[HarfBuzz] Using HarfBuzz to get final glyphs

[Ed Trager]

Hi, Behdad,

Thanks for clarifying for everyone the history behind HarfBuzz.

To help you avoid having to write these kind of emails again, and to insure
continued healthy community relations going forward, I suggest adding the
following sentances directly onto the Wiki front page.  I have taken
the liberty of
editing the verbiage slightly, but it is basically just what you said
in your email.
I will be happy to add this onto the wiki for you if you prefer.  Let
me know what you
think :

>  History of the Project
>  ---------------------------------------
>
>  When the FTLayout code was orphaned by
>  FreeType, both Pango and Qt made internal copies on it.  Then a couple
>  years ago Behdad Esfahbod worked with Qt developers Lars Knoll and Simon Hausmann and merged the
>  code back together and dumped it in a shared repository for the
>  sake of sharing and not diverging again.  For a long while, there was
>  just a piece of code that was not
>  really useful on its own.  Then Qt added their shaper code to it
>  and the project became what we now call HarfBuzz.
>

>  Examples
>  -------------------
>
>  Both QT and Pango use HarfBuzz, so feel free to examine the
>  code of these projects.  Currently, a simple 100-line sample does not
>  exist.  You will need at least a couple of hundred lines of glue code
>  to drive HarfBuzz directly with FreeType.
>

>  Our Goal
>  ------------------
>
>  We want to make HarfBuzz the single one shaping
>  solution on Free Software systems.  That's why we are rewriting
>  it from top to bottom with sane APIs.  This takes time, so please be
>  patient and stay tuned as the project develops further.
>

Best Wishes and enjoy the rest of your vacation back home -- Ed