[ft] Does FT provide shaping functionality...?

[Anson]

...to support features like
1. two-dimensional glyph advancing (e.g. going up or down as well as left)
2. glyph selection depending on more than just the one character currently under
consideration (e.g. two adjacent characters may be represented by a single
"ligature" glyph).

Things that you need for script like Devanagari.