[HarfBuzz] Beginner question: What are cluster levels?

[Behdad Esfahbod]

Hi Jamie and Deepak,

I'll try to get a detailed reply to this thread tomorrow.

Cheers,
behdad

On 16-01-04 05:02 PM, Jamie Dale wrote:
> I'm also curious to know the answer to this. I'm currently using
> HB_BUFFER_CLUSTER_LEVEL_MONOTONE_CHARACTERS as I read somewhere that it
> produces finer grained cluster data.
> 
> I'm currently adding the remaining bits of editable text support that I'd
> skipped over before, and part of this is dealing with picking characters via a
> cursor hit-test. This is mostly working now, but I still need a way to handle
> picking characters that have become ligatures during shaping (eg, "fi"), as
> they exist as a single glyph in my shaped data. Would I re-shape them using
> different settings? Would the cluster level settings help here?
> 
> -Jamie.
> 
> 
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