[HarfBuzz] What is the utility of the advances list?

eduardo eduardo at brainstorm.es
Tue Oct 29 03:19:01 PDT 2013


Hi,

Why does hb return a list of advances when, given a glyph, it can 
easily be extracted from the font? Are the glyph advances context 
dependant? If so, what is a good language/script to see the difference?

Thanks!



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