Re: [Render] OpenType support in Pango

[bstell netscape com (Brian Stell)]

Owen Taylor wrote:

> ...
> - A simple Arabic shaper (again using some code from the
>    FreeType 1 distro) that uses that shapes Arabic using
>    the glue layer.
>
> This is currently only handling GSUB (contextual variants and
> ligatures) though most of the GPOS code is there and just needs to be
> hooked up and tested/debugged.

Do you intend to draw each (vertically) positioned character with a
separate draw call?

Should we consider an API that allows an app to pass an array of positions
along
with the data?

This would be useful for line justification as well.

Brian Stell