Hi David, basically, harfbuzz is part of the very low level system rendering side, if it is part of it. It would not likely ever be part of a frontend. If you run a Linux system with Gnome/GTK then chances are it is part of your stack. It is part of mine. As a result Xiphos here will use it if it is there. But not because it relies upon it, but because it relies on something else (webkit) which in turn (via gtk?) relies on pango which in turn relies on harfbuzz if it is there.
Pango in turn is heavily supported by SIL. SIL maintained for years a patched version where they kept trying their things out. As a result yu could use them sometimes to get a special edge in terms of display - but AFAIK all successfully tested tends to get folded into mainstream pretty soon. I would not run on my system SIL's pango directly as too many things break if you run I am not sure if our Windows version of Xiphos needs to bundle all this stuff and where it gets it from, but I guess you have a windows computer - check if it is there. So, in short, this is not something we would really take any interest in from the engine side and from a frontend we would take only an interest when we need to send a lot of bundled stuff along as in Xiphos on Windows. yours Peter On Sat, 2015-12-12 at 13:24 -0800, David Haslam wrote: > Which of the front-ends use Pango? > > Do any front-ends use the SIL Graphite smart font technology? > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphite_%28SIL%29 > It is free software, distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser > General > Public License and the Common Public License. > > > > David > > > > -- > View this message in context: http://sword-dev.350566.n4.nabble.com/H > arfBuzz-tp4655443p4655445.html > Sent from the SWORD Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: [email protected] > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: [email protected] http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
