Hi Khaled & Jonathan, Here's another idea. Now that HarfBuzz shaper is fairly complete, we've been adding lots of what I call introspection APIs. There's some more to add, but after we're done it would be possible to write a tool that takes a font and generates a PDF that exposes most of the font's complex features (ligatures, mark positioning, alternate glyphs, etc). I think such a font would be really helpful in reviewing fonts.
Since we don't have a good layout engine other than TeX, there are two ways to write such a tool: * Write it in C++ and generate XeTeX input... * Just write it in XeTeX directly. The second makes a lot of sense, except that: 1) We need to expose the HB introspection API in XeTeX first, 2) We all know how fun programming with (La)TeX is... So, what are your thoughts? Cheers, -- behdad http://behdad.org/ _______________________________________________ HarfBuzz mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/harfbuzz
