[HarfBuzz] is it possible to render the harfbuzz buffer on to something other than SDL, like terminal

[Alexander Sabourenkov]

On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 9:01 PM, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at behdad.org> wrote:
>
> You don't have to implement the spanner callback API, you can ask FreeType to
> render glyph to bitmap directly.
>

True, but if one is interested in separate glyphs only, harfbuzz isn't
needed at all.

And while it is possible to get a bounding box + origin offset on a
shaped string without spanners, I'm sure it's way simpler and faster
with them. Besides one would have to write a blitter of some sort to
put the individual glyph bitmaps into the right positions, which is on
par with writing spanners in terms of effort.

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