[HarfBuzz] Some experiments with harfbuzz/OpenGL

[Nicolas Rougier]

Thanks a lot for your feedback.
I corrected the output thanks to Behdad bugfix.


Nicolas


On Apr 12, 2013, at 20:09 , Khaled Hosny wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 07:44:17PM +0200, Nicolas Rougier wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Thanks to the great example available at https://github.com/lxnt/ex-sdl-freetype-harfbuzz, I did some experiments to render
>> some Arabic text using OpenGL/Freetype/Harfbuzz.
>> 
>> You can find a screenshot here: http://freetype-gl.googlecode.com/svn/wiki/images/arabic.png
>> 
>> Sources are available in http://code.google.com/p/freetype-gl/source/browse/trunk/harfbuzz.
>> It's quite experimental though...
>> 
>> I hope the text is ok since I don't read Arabic (google helped me on this).
> 
> The text is fine (it poem pangram), but the positioning of combining
> marks does not seem quite right, some of them are shifted horizontally
> by a small amount, sometimes to the left and others to the right.
> 
> Regards,
> Khaled