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Re: landing harfbuzz branch (Re: Status of multicolor fonts?)
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mituharu |
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Re: landing harfbuzz branch (Re: Status of multicolor fonts?) |
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Sat, 4 May 2019 06:46:56 +0900 |
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> On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 06:59:26PM +0900, address@hidden
> wrote:
>> I also tried adding the `mac-cthb' backend, but it is not included
>> in the patch.
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> Is there any advantage to mac-cthb over the current coretext system?
Nothing I know of. I just implemented it to see if FreeType
dependency is eliminated in ftfont_shape_by_hb (despite its
name).
> Could it be ported to GNUstep? The current font backend is, in my
> experience, not very good.
That would make sense. There is no direct interface to create
hb_font_t object from NSFont, but it might be possible by
directly referring to the font file name.
YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
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