On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 14:42 +0000, Jonathan Kew wrote: > Modifying x_offset alone would adjust the position of a glyph but not the > position of any following glyphs, which is not the effect you want kerning to > have. (OTOH, it's usually appropriate for things like accent positioning.) Oh, good answer, thanks. > (How would you expect to make use of caching the "x_advance of a char"? Did > you perhaps mean glyph here, rather than character? *Character* advances are > context-dependent even without the presence of kerning, as there might be > contextual substitutions that give you entirely different glyphs.) I'm aware of that situation, I was actually referring to caching of it per strings so I'll be able to know the sizes of parts of the string without needing to recalculate them, but nvm.
Thanks a lot, Tom. _______________________________________________ HarfBuzz mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/harfbuzz
