On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Hans Hagen <[email protected]> wrote: > Yue Wang wrote: >> >> QUOTE: > so if you wan tto use those libraries use xetex instead then (no gain in > using luatex); the objective of the luatex project is to have a regular > opened up tex engine with all under user/macro package control
Harfbuzz is not a high level language layout engine like ICU that is used in xetex. It is just a OTF loading library (it's the successor of freetype1 otf loading code). And it will be the opensource opentype rendering standard in the future. > > eventually (when luatex is mostly finished) one can always consider using > libraries (i.e. converting node lists to whatever some library likes and > convert what comes back to node lists) but that is then just one of the > methods and not part of the luatex project > > Hans > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE > Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands > tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com > | www.pragma-pod.nl > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ dev-luatex mailing list [email protected] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/dev-luatex
