[HarfBuzz] How to increase harfbuzz numerical precision

Khaled Hosny khaledhosny at eglug.org
Tue Jun 28 23:05:50 UTC 2016


On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 06:40:32PM -0400, Kelvin Ma wrote:
> > From: Simon Cozens <simon at simon-cozens.org>
> > To: harfbuzz at lists.freedesktop.org
> > Subject: Re: [HarfBuzz] How to increase harfbuzz numerical precision
> > Message-ID: <c27719a7-c461-926f-af28-809a47d6df89 at simon-cozens.org>
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> > On 29/06/2016 06:57, Kelvin Ma wrote:
> > > How do I get harfbuzz to preserve the floats?
> >
> > There are no floats. Fonts are designed in integer units. What upem are
> > you using?
> >
> 
> Not true. OTF fonts can and are in floats, the integer thing is just a

There are no floats in glyph advances (hmtx) or positioning (GPOS),
which are the one relevant here.


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