>From the official site: "HarfBuzz is an OpenType <http://www.microsoft.com/OpenType/OTSpec/> text shaping engine." Shaping != layout.
So quick answer would be: "No, HarfBuzz can not do layout related tasks". Konstantin 2014-07-31 1:35 GMT+04:00 Edu García <[email protected]>: > Thank you! What about the layout, can Harfbuzz do it? > On Jul 30, 2014 9:07 PM, "Khaled Hosny" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 01:42:42PM +1000, Edu García wrote: >> > Hi there, >> > >> > First of all, just let me say that Harfbuzz seems like an awesome piece >> of >> > engineering, and the API seems a breeze to use. I've done a very simple >> > example in just a few hours, and I'm very happy about that :). >> > >> > I have two (very noob, sorry) questions, tough: >> > >> > 1) I want to enable (or disable) ligatures. I've seen that when using a >> > font like Adobe Garamond Pro, ligatures are automatically used. I >> thought I >> > had to pass a feature to hb_shape() to do that? Also, is there any way >> of >> > enabling only some kind of ligatures, like historical ones? >> >> Some features are enabled by default, to you can disable default >> features/enable non-default features by passing appropriate >> hb_feature_t's to hb_shape_full(). >> >> Regards, >> Khaled >> > > _______________________________________________ > HarfBuzz mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/harfbuzz > >
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