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On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org> wrote:
On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 03:08:20AM +0200, Khaled Hosny wrote:
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 03:27:39PM +0100, Caolán McNamara wrote:
On Fri, 2012-03-30 at 16:13 +0200, Khaled Hosny wrote:
If there is interest in this, I can try implementing optional HarfBuzz
support next to ICU so we can experiment more with this (though I'm not
the best person to do this, but I can try).

Can't hurt to give it a go anyway. Even epic failure can point the next
person in the right way to go. Yeah lacking Indic shaping would be a
problem for right now.

Indic scripts are supported now (git master, not released yet), and
given HarfBuzz track record, it should even be better than ICU layout
engine which is essentially put on ventilator (pun intended), so now is
a good time to experiment, but I didn't manage to try doing it yet.

Here is a very crude, WIP patch. It adds --enable-harfbuzz configure
option, plus some (very broken) harfbuzz layout code, but I can't get
the ENABLE_HARFBUZZ to propagate in and thus can't do any testing
because the code is never compiled. I appreciate any insights on how to
get this to work.

oh... if you want it as a define too accessible for sources (and not
just makefile level define)
you need
SCPDEFS="$SCPDEFS -DENABLE_HARFUZZ"
 in configure.in arount where you set ENABLE_HARFUZZ="YESS"

Norbert

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