On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 06:18:20PM -0500, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > On 12-12-18 06:16 PM, Jonathan Kew wrote: > > On 18/12/12 22:23, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > >> 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... > >> > > > > I'd favor some form of the first approach: write a tool in C++ (or Python or > > Perl or whatever) that uses the HB API to inspect a font and generate a > > "data > > dump" in some simple marked-up format that can then be pretty-printed by > > running it through xetex with an appropriate set of macros to handle > > layout, etc. > > > > I wouldn't aim for such a tool to generate entirely "raw" xetex input that > > directly contains every detail of formatting control; more likely, generate > > data tables in some sort of LaTeX markup (sorry, ConTeXt people, but LaTeX > > is > > far more widely used and understood!), and then have a "template" LaTeX > > document and style that wrap the data tables with appropriate page layout > > control. > > Ok, makes a lot of sense. > > Humm. There are JSON LaTeX (and ConTeXt!) package out there I assume? That > would kill multiple birds...
I don’t think there are existing JSON to TeX packages, but it shouldn’t be hard to write some python script to process JSON output (I’m guessing here, I never dealt with JSON). Regards, Khaled _______________________________________________ HarfBuzz mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/harfbuzz
