Re: [ft-devel] harfbuzz experience anyone ?

[Nicolas Rougier]

Thanks. For the record, I posted some (still buggy) code to the HarfBuzz 
mailing list.
I will post updates on the HarfBuzz list.

Nicolas



On Jan 5, 2012, at 22:49 , Behdad Esfahbod wrote:

> On 01/05/2012 04:13 AM, Nicolas Rougier wrote:
>> 
>> Hi all,
> 
> Hi Nicolas,
> 
>> 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/).
> 
> I actually suggest that you get the new version.  Checkout the hb-shape tool,
> it gives you ideas how to you it.
> 
> 
>> 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).
> 
> You can do that.  But note that it would only work for left-to-right 
> languages.
> 
> behdad
> 
>> 
>> Nicolas
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