On 08/10/2012 04:08 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote: > On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 03:49:12PM -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
>> To be honest, Qt / Old HarfBuzz has such serious problems with RTL text and >> Arabic in general that Kashida should be no one's top issue considering a >> switch. > > I agree, and it is the main reason why I never use Qt applications > myself (or why I love GTK). I don't care about such simple minded > kashida justification myself (Word and OpenOffice have it and I’ve to > play tricks with them to never apply it because it just ruins my fonts), > I just want to see Qt switching to the new HarfBuzz so people stop > telling me how my fonts are broken there :) Jiang Jiang started a patch last year. Hopefully someone will pick it up from there? >> But we will eventually get to justification in HarfBuzz too... Eventually. >> In >> the mean time, feel free to play with adding JSTF tables to your fonts, if >> you >> figure out how it works or find an implementing client. > > I requested JSTF support from George Williams a while ago and he > (as usual) added to FontForge, but the lack of engine support killed all > the motivation to experiment with it. I should start playing with it > later this year (I have been collecting ideas for a while). Right. Give me a sample font and I'll see what I can do. Reading the spec itself, it's extremely inefficient and a pain to implement... But I can try. behdad > Regards, > Khaled > _______________________________________________ HarfBuzz mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/harfbuzz
