Re: [ft-devel] A question about freetype and harfbuzz

2007-05-28 Thread mpsuzuki
Dear Sirs, Before all, Werner asked the question that I wanted to ask, thank you very much. On Mon, 28 May 2007 08:42:10 +0200 (CEST) Werner LEMBERG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> # Personally, I'm one of the people who want FT2 to have support for >> # text layout feature. I guess I feel sympath

Re: [ft-devel] A question about freetype and harfbuzz

2007-05-28 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 23:48 +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > [...] I believe that any OpenType Layout engine should do its own > > validation, > > Why? What is bad about letting FreeType doing that? Afterwards you > can omit any error handling... For one thing, FreeType is not necessarily avail

Re: [ft-devel] A question about freetype and harfbuzz

2007-05-28 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> [...] I believe that any OpenType Layout engine should do its own > validation, Why? What is bad about letting FreeType doing that? Afterwards you can omit any error handling... Werner ___ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org

Re: [ft-devel] A question about freetype and harfbuzz

2007-05-28 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 02:34 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, 28 May 2007 13:48:20 +0800 > LingNing Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Hi all, > >I have a question about freetype and harfbuzz. > >FreeType1 includes an extension to support OpenType text layout > >processing. But this su

RE: [ft-devel] Unpatented hinting when vertical and horizontal point sizes are different

2007-05-28 Thread Graham Asher
I shall try to look at it - coincidentally, I am doing some FreeType work right now - but it is hard for me to make a commitment to fix this by a certain date. Graham -Original Message- From: Werner LEMBERG [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 May 2007 08:16 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freet

Re: [ft-devel] Autohinting Indic text and the default script module used by FreeType2

2007-05-28 Thread David Turner
Hello Rahul, thanks a lot for pointing this out so clearly. I just switched the default hinting script to CJK in the CVS repository. this should be part of the next release, which should hopefully be available soon.. thanks again, - David Turner - The FreeType Project (www.freetype.org) On Mon

Re: [ft-devel] Autohinting Indic text and the default script module used by FreeType2

2007-05-28 Thread mpsuzuki
Dear Sir, On Mon, 28 May 2007 17:41:15 +0530 "Rahul Bhalerao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have been trying to device a module for Indic hinting in FT2. >The current default script module used by FT2 is latin which is not suitable >for indic text and affects the display significantly. >I found ou