[ft-devel] harfbuzz experience anyone ?

[Nicolas Rougier]

Hi all,

Does anybody has some experience in using the harfbuzz 
(http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/HarfBuzz) library with freetype ? I 
cloned the old version (harfbuzz.old, because the new one is not stable nor 
documented) but I did not find running examples. The contrib directory has some 
harfbuzz-freetype.c but I did not find how to actually use it and I would like 
to provide shaping for displaying font in freetype-gl 
(http://code.google.com/p/freetype-gl/).

Ideally, I would like to write a function that takes a font filename, a font 
size and a string to be rendered and the function would return all the required 
glyphs codepoint and probably the advance information (but since I'm no 
specialist, I'm not sure this even makes sense).


Nicolas