On 14-02-02 08:31 AM, Khaled Hosny wrote: > On Sun, Feb 02, 2014 at 09:45:16AM +0000, Jonathan Kew wrote:
>> As for what harfbuzz should do: currently, it deliberately uses the >> precomposed Hebrew presentation-form glyphs, because there are many >> (generally older) fonts out there that lack good (or any) mark positioning >> rules, and so decomposed sequences look terrible. Using the presentation >> forms gives a much better result. >> >> However, perhaps we should try to be more sophisticated, and do something >> like "compose to the presentation forms if the font doesn't have GPOS mark >> positioning; otherwise prefer decomposed sequences". > > Yes, this what I had in mind, similar to what HarfBuzz currently does > for Arabic presentation forms shaping. Fixed. Only tries composing if font doesn't have a 'mark' feature (GPOS or GSUB). -- behdad http://behdad.org/ _______________________________________________ HarfBuzz mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/harfbuzz
