[HarfBuzz] Streamlining hb_font_t some more

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Oct 9, 2015 8:32 PM, "Simon Cozens" <simon at simon-cozens.org> wrote:
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> On 10/10/2015 01:33, Jonathan Kew wrote:
> > You probably want to be using the "typographic" metrics from the OS/2
> > table, if present, with the hhea metrics as a fallback for fonts that
> > don't have OS/2. (They're rare, but can exist at least on OS X.)
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> Hmm... that's something it doesn't look like Harfbuzz will help me with
> at all.
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> Behdad, how would your suggestion to use the font's typographic metrics
> work in practice? Do I need to go back to FT for this? Wasn't the whole
> point to get away from FT?

Will add to hb-font.  No one ever needed it so didn't happen yet.

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