[HarfBuzz] Fwd: Harfbuzz with linebreaking

Khaled Hosny khaledhosny at eglug.org
Wed Jun 15 11:45:03 UTC 2016


On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 09:29:34AM +0700, Martin Hosken wrote:
>            I would suggest that you don't need to reshape if the start
> of the next line is in a different cluster to the end of the previous
> line. There are cases where you may need to do some positional tidying
> (deciding where the new 0 is in the line), but you can't ligate across
> a cluster boundary (by definition in OT).

This is only true for (some) Indic scripts that do not use the Universal
Shaping Engine, other shapers do not have this limitation.

Regards,
Khaled


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