[HarfBuzz] Indic expertise wanted

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <4DF6C38F.30403 at gmail.com>, Shriramana Sharma <samjnaa at gmail.com> writes:

> On 14-06-2011 00:18, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> > I know that problem very well, and am working on a solution to address it.
> > Having more shapers doesn't really solve it though.

> Yeah, I was meaning to say this: Each Indic script has its own unique 
> characteristics and so even the classification of North Indic vs South 
> Indic wouldn't work.

FYI, m17n-lib's approach is to have a layouting engine for
each script.  In the case of m17n-lib, having many layouting
engines has no problem.  Each engine is just 100 to 300
lines of text file containing layouting rules.  We adopted
this approach because we found that a slight difference of
layouting rules results in rather complicated code when they
are mixed in a signle engine.

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Kenichi Handa
handa at m17n.org