[HarfBuzz] Retrieving optical size info?

Khaled Hosny khaledhosny at eglug.org
Sat Nov 24 12:58:54 PST 2012


On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 01:05:26AM -0500, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> On 12-11-23 07:42 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> 
> > (Background: I’m almost done with porting XeTeX from ICU LayoutEngine to
> > HarfBuzz, one of the few things remaining is getting optical size. The
> > current code uses some internal LE API and I want to move away from this
> > as possible).
> 
> Sure, I'll implement it in HarfBuzz for you!

Great!

> Independently, I should implement this in Fontconfig as it was discussed a few
> months back.

We can make use of that too, but it would take years for XeTeX to able
to depend on such a version of FontConfig (TeX Live does not link FC
statically, unlike other libs, and they want to support older systems).

Regards,
 Khaled



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