Re: State of Text Rendering

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On 08/20/2009 02:51 PM, Petr Tomasek wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 08:47:09PM -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > This is a few weeks old, from GUADEC, but it just occurred to me that I
> > never posted it here:
> >
> >    http://behdad.org/text/
> >
> > Hope people find it useful,
> > behdad
>
> Hello Behdad,
>
> I'm little confused. You write "Next step is to ... merge the Pango and Qt shapers".
> Does it mean, that pango will be obsolete then? Or just it's shapers (pango modules?).

Just the shapers.  All the fc modules: basic-fc, arabic-fc, indic-fc, 
hebrew-fc ..., will be replaced by a single basic-hb module.  Like what we do 
on win32 and atsui right now.


> And what about SIL Graphite?
> I thought, there was a module to bring the SIL Graphite features for fonts that
> support it. Will this be impossible with the new approach?

No:

1) One still can add/install Pango modules,

2) Proper Graphite support will be added to HarfBuzz at some point.

behdad

> Thanks for clarifying!
> P.T.