<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 4:05 PM, Nathan Willis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nwillis@glyphography.com" target="_blank">nwillis@glyphography.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Kind of a high-level question about describing HB functionality....</div><div><br></div><div>Would you consider the handling of emoji variation-selector sequences to be "shaping", or some other operation?</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes. They can and do use the existing substitution and positioning features in fonts, so that's shaping.<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Feels like kind of a gray area to me; when it comes to describing what HarfBuzz does and what the use cases are that developers need it for, though, it's important to get it right. So I'd like to know what the consensus is....</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>[Related question also applies to handling the MATH table -- AIUI, HarfBuzz leaves math layout to others higher up in the stack, so I wouldn't call math-table support "math shaping", but other people may see it differently...]<br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Nate<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="m_7817356681851545197gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">nathan.p.willis<br><a href="mailto:nwillis@glyphography.com" target="_blank">nwillis@glyphography.com</a><a href="http://identi.ca/n8" target="_blank"></a></div></div></font></span></div></div>
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