Re: pango vs. libraqm

[Daniel G <redapple82570 gmail com>]

Thank you both for the responses, I appreciate it!

On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 3:00 PM Khaled Hosny <dr khaled hosny gmail com> wrote:

On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 04:46:54PM -0500, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
> Comparing PangoLayout to libraqm is valid.  As far as I understand, and
> Khaled can correct me, raqm does not do font fallback and line breaking
> currently, nor does it do font enumeration.  Raqm is designed to add to
> applications that otherwise have a very simplistic view of text rendering.
> Ie. they use FreeType and a single font to render single-line text (think,
> movie subtitles...).  Raqm can very easily add complex text rendering
> support to such systems.

Right.

(Raqm supports using multiple fonts, so in theory one can implement font
fallback on top of that, but I’m not aware of any Raqm clients that do
that).

Regards,
Khaled