[HarfBuzz] HarfBuzz 1.0 API; the message you were hoping would never come

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On 14-01-23 06:29 PM, Konstantin Ritt wrote:
> IMO, HB needs to support all 3 cases in a unified way and let the user an
> ability to force metrics somehow: 1. shaper works in design metrics; 2. shaper
> works in scaled/hinted metrics (default for i.e. Uniscribe and for Graphite2
> in current backend implementation); 3. shaper works in scaled/unhinted metrics
> (default for i.e. CoreText). Currently, case 3 isn't supported due to
> truncation issue and it seems like case 2 isn't supported because truncation
> isn't rounding and the advance value should be rounded before it affects other
> metrics (what HB-old did in the absence of the DesignMetrics flag).

Ok, let me get back to you in detail next week.  I'm in the middle an all-week
event this week.

Thanks,
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behdad
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