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Geneal discussion re HarfBuzz, a text shaping library
Recent threads
Suresh P — 137162933719 Jun 2013*
Hi, In Malayalam some consonants like YA(യ), RA(ര) are quasi-vowels and they have post(pre)/below base forms. As per OT spec the pstf(pref) and bl...
question about indic matra group rule (1 Reply)
datao zhang — 137145423117 Jun 2013*
Dear behdad: I feel confuse for the syllable rule in hb-ot-shape-complex-indic-machine.rl: halant_or_matra_group = (final_halant_group | (h.ZWJ)?...
lack of documentation drives me crazy (7 Replies)
Werner LEMBERG — 137142967417 Jun 2013*
Behdad, please, PLEASE add some documentation to harfbuzz! It really drives me crazy that I have to read the source code of harfbuzz to get some clues...
Richard Wordingham — 137142762717 Jun 2013*
Dear List, I have been experimenting with some unusual mark attachments and was surprised to come across restrictions on the skipping controls in the ...
Werner LEMBERG — 137136847716 Jun 2013
[harfbuzz 79d1007a501fd63c0ba4d51038c513e6b8b94740] Behdad, the attached program gives the also attached output if applied to `pala.ttf', version ...
Better handling variation selectors (17 Replies)
Behdad Esfahbod — 137119718614 Jun 2013*
Konstantin has brought up a few interesting issues regarding variation selectors. I'll summarize issues that I think can be improved: - Right now ...
Olivier Berten — 137119459314 Jun 2013*
Hi! Although it isn't complying with the TrueType/OpenType specifications, some fonts have some glyphs with negative advance width. Advance width ...
(Behdad Esfahbod) — 137116333713 Jun 2013
src/hb-ft.cc | 3 +-- src/hb-ot-shape-normalize.cc | 20 ++++++++++++++++++-- 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) New commits: c...
Richard Wordingham — 137115595713 Jun 2013*
Dear List, Harfbuzz (at least, at 0.9.18) SEA shaping for Tai Tham currently falls foul of the pointless assignment of ccc=230 to the Tai Tham tone ma...
Javanese script in Harfbuzz (1 Reply)
R.S. Wihananto — 137115350913 Jun 2013*
Hi, Behdad and every member! I'm developing font for Javanese script based on Unicode on http://sites.google.com/site/jawaunicode. Currently, my f...
pango and harfbuzz (4 Replies)
Felipe Heidrich — 137106023412 Jun 2013*
Hello, I'm evaluating pango and harfbuzz to use with javafx and I have a couple questions: 1) Advance typographic features (i.e http://dev.w3.org/...
(Behdad Esfahbod) — 137089009410 Jun 2013
src/hb-common.cc | 2 +- src/hb-coretext.cc | 3 --- src/hb-font-private.hh | 17 +++++++++++-- src/hb-private.hh | 2 +- src/hb-shape...
(Behdad Esfahbod) — 137088580610 Jun 2013
configure.ac | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) New commits: commit 570bcccd3f41b9aecd51765a401299833a6d8ebd Author: Behdad Esf...
Richard Wordingham — 137077693509 Jun 2013
Dear List, I am wrestling with how to render U+1A58 TAI THAM SIGN MAI KANG LAI in a fashion that does not reduce users' ability to manually edit t...
(Behdad Esfahbod) — 137055829006 Jun 2013
configure.ac | 16 ++++++++ src/Makefile.am | 14 +++++++--- 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) New commits: commit 270cfd7a9c...
Lohit Malayalam shaping (1 Reply)
Behdad Esfahbod — 137050149306 Jun 2013*
Can someone check this bug out: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/det... Is this still a bug in the latest Lohit? Or is this by design?...
(Behdad Esfahbod) — 137029870703 Jun 2013
src/hb-ucdn/ucdn.c | 1 - src/hb-uniscribe.cc | 9 +++++ test/api/test-buffer.c | 2 +- util/ansi-print.cc | 11 +++++++++++ 4 files c...
(Behdad Esfahbod) — 136995036430 May 2013
Makefile.am | 5 +++-- TODO | 14 +++++++--- 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) New commits: commit 280e52ae95df0cbee0bb305f535...
Further splitting libharfbuzz.so (5 Replies)
Behdad Esfahbod — 136994036630 May 2013*
Hey everyone, One of the issues I have to address before releasing harfbuzz-1.0 is to figure out how to split libharfbuzz.so into smaller libraries, a...
Ed Trager — 136978144928 May 2013*
Hi, Behdad and OpenType Experts-at-Large! I'm trying to find a good OpenType solution to a problem in the Tai Tham font that I am developing. The ...