Re: [Freetype] GPOS anybody?

[Dave Williss]

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From: "Werner LEMBERG" <address@hidden>
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Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2001 10:26 AM
Subject: Re: [Freetype] GPOS anybody?


> 
> > Has anybody ever done anything with GPOS tables?
> 
> They are implemented.
> 
> > I see that FreeType 1.3 has functions to read the table but nothing
> > to actually process a string.
> 
> Please get the current snapshot and look at ftstrtto.

Ah!  Perfect!  They weren't implemented in the latest stable
release (1.3.1), but they're in pre1.4.


> 
> > Now I'm working on the Indic languages that use the devanagari
> > script and some of their fonts expect you to use a GPOS table to
> > move marks around.
> 
> Devanagari support with FreeType already exists; Yogesh Ketkar is
> actually using it.  Maybe there are still some bugs in it, but I think
> that most of them are fixed now.
> 
> 
>     Werner
>