[HarfBuzz] [ft-devel] Re: About Gsub table in opentype.

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On 11/16/10 22:47, Kenichi Handa wrote:

> I too want to switch from libotf to harfbuzz, but at the
> moment, harfbuzz is not released as an independent library
> (and APIs are still changing), I can't catch a good timing
> to shift to harfbuzz.

Good to know.


>>> Maybe you're thinking of libm17n; that looks closer to harfbuzz in
>>> functionality.
> 
>> That too.
> 
> I really hope to use libm17n's shaping engine from harfbuzz.
> A few years ago, I asked you to include libm17n-based
> shaping module in Pango, but there have been no progress,
> perhaps because Pango is going to use harfbuzz's shaping
> engines, right?  And, when I checked harfbuzz code a while
> ago, it seems that shaping engines are builtin (i.e. not by
> loadable modules).  Don't you have a plan of making it
> possible that harfbuzz can use the other loadable shaping
> engine?

For HarfBuzz, I do plan to support other backends.  The final design will
perhaps be a bit different, but it will be coming.

behdad