[HarfBuzz] hb-view --script and --language tests?

Rolf Langenhuijzen rolf.langenhuijzen at xs4all.nl
Sun Jun 17 03:13:11 PDT 2012


Thanks for the tips, with Deja Vu (using the serif italic) I was able to test the script/language options (cyrillic vs serbian glyphs).

Regards,
Rolf


On Jun 15, 2012, at 1:38 AM, Khaled Hosny wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 10:19:19PM +0200, Rolf Langenhuijzen wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I wanted to test the --script and --language options of hb-view to see
>> these features in action.  For example --script=cyrl with
>> --language=SRB or --script=latin --language=TRK.  Then try to get
>> similar results as:
>> http://people.mozilla.org/~jdaggett/webfonts/serbianglyphs.html
>> 
>> Though, I don't own Adobe Text Pro. Are there (free/open source)
>> alternative fonts we can use?
> 
> DejaVu fonts should have the Serbian and Turkish variants, Linux
> Libertine fonts should have some language specific variants as well
> (generally, any font with a ‘locl’ feature, there are plenty of them).
> 
> Regards,
> Khaled




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