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Re: [Freetype] Font files and vertical text
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro |
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Re: [Freetype] Font files and vertical text |
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Sat, 15 May 2021 18:45:55 +1200 |
On Sat, 15 May 2021 15:16:25 +0900, suzuki toshiya wrote:
> The modern applications trying to support the
> CJK vertical writing mode use more complicated frameworks, like
> HarfBuzz.
Too many times I see questions on this list from people trying to do
complicated font rendering directly in FreeType, when they should be
using higher-level rendering/shaping engines like Cairo, HarfBuzz and
Fribidi. They should be saving themselves some work.