[HarfBuzz] Library similar to HarfBuzz to shape mathematical equations?

[Lóránt Pintér]

How complex is the problem of math layout, say, compared to HarfBuzz? What are the hard parts? In other words: how big would the project have to be?  

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Lóránt Pintér
Developer at Prezi (http://prezi.com)



On Wednesday, November 14, 2012 at 11:23 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote:

> Hi,
>  
> I'd be interested in helping with such an effort, I already started
> cleaning up GtkMathView (on a private fork) a while ago to prepare it
> for OpenType math support, would there be any interest in HarfBuzz
> providing an API to read MATH table? (I think it might help a bit with
> porting Gecko to OpenType math that some Mozilla MathML people seem to
> be interested in). That would be a good start, a full math engine in
> HarfBuzz would be nice, but it might be too much I think, given the
> complexity of math layout.
>  
> Regards,
> Khaled
>  
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 11:11:08AM -0800, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> > Hi,
> >  
> > There used to be GtkMathMLView. That's not exactly what you want though.
> > Maybe we should start one...
> >  
> > http://helm.cs.unibo.it/mml-widget/
> >  
> > behdad
> >  
> > On 12-11-14 08:59 AM, Lóránt Pintér wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >  
> > > Sorry for the off-topic question, but is there maybe a library similar to
> > > HatfBuzz that can be used to shape/layout/format mathematical formula?
> > >  
> > > What I would like is to provide the input in TeX or MathML format, and get
> > > back something similar to hb_buffer_get_glyph_positions().
> > >  
> > > --  
> > > Thanks,
> > >  
> > > *Lóránt Pintér*
> > >  
> > > Developer at Prezi <http://prezi.com>
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