[HarfBuzz] Further splitting libharfbuzz.so

Khaled Hosny khaledhosny at eglug.org
Thu May 30 02:23:46 PDT 2013


On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 11:37:28AM +0300, Cosmin Apreutesei wrote:
> >   * hb-ft is a very small piece; convenience code you can even call it.  Most
> > "serious" users of harfbuzz don't use hb-ft, but small users all use it.
> 
> I see pango uses ft too to implement the callbacks for
> hb_font_set_funcs(). Are there other harfbuzz users that don't use ft
> to implement those callbacks? I don't mind the ft dependency, I just
> want to look at more examples of how harfbuzz is used so I can
> understand it better.

Niether XeTeX nor LibreOffice use hb-ft, and AFAIK the same is true for
Gecko and WebKit/Blink.

Regards,
Khaled



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