Re: Modern font features, hacky patch

On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 05:18:46PM +0100, Caolán McNamara wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-07-21 at 18:20 +0200, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> > 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.
>
> You need to put harfbuzz in the gb_Library_use_externals section of
> Library_vcl.mk (or whichever is the right .mk file in vcl)
>
> It would be nice to get this feature in as a compile time option for
> experimenting with.

I’ve some code that more or less works (as in displaying some text), but
it crashes like hell, I'm yet to figure out what is going on (I think
I've to override more members of ServerFontLayout to make things saner).

Regards,
 Khaled