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 >> _______________________________________________ >> Freetype-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel >> _______________________________________________ Freetype-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel
