[HarfBuzz] Layout engine and vertical paragraphs

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On 05/15/11 17:54, eduardo wrote:
> Hi,

Hi,


> I'm very new to harfbuzz and i18n.
> 
> I'm started working with ICU which is huge, and I would like to know whether
> hb would be able to manage layouts in the same way ICU does.

I'm not very familiar with ICU so I cannot comment there.


> Does it support vertical paragraph layouts?

Not right now.  I'm working on that, it should be ready later this week.


> Would I need to separate the text in different scripts

Yes.  And do bidi, line-breaking, etc.


> Where can I get some documentation or sample code to start learning hb? I have
> been looking Firefox4 and Skia codes, but I wonder whether there would be some
> smaller example.

Checkout src/hb-view.c.   That doesn't handle multi-script though, but you get
the idea.

behdad


> Thanks a lot.
> 
> Eduardo.
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