[XeTeX] openType and xetex

[Khaled Hosny]

May be if you actually read what is posted on the list :)

On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 07:29:13AM +0100, Youcef Mohammed wrote:
> any news???
> 
> 2012/6/29, Jonathan Kew <jfkthame at googlemail.com>:
> > On 28/6/12 20:52, Adam Twardoch (List) wrote:
> >> Youcef is right:
> >> AFIR, XeTeX supports three layout engines:
> >> * ICU Layout, cross platform, working with OT Layout tables in SFNT fonts
> >> * Graphite, cross-platform, working with Graphite tables in SFNT fonts
> >> * ATT, Mac OS X only, working with OT Layout tables and AAT tables in SFNT
> >> fonts.
> >>
> >> I don't remember whether XeTeX in addition also supports Uniscribe on
> >> Windows.
> >>
> >> Given the fact that XeTeX is already set up to handle multiple layout
> >> engines, it would be relatively easy to add support for more -- especially
> >> to add support for Harfbuzz. I would applaud if anyone volunteered to do
> >> that (Harfbuzz has sample code that shows you how). It'd be particularly
> >> neat since Harfbuzz itself also supports several backends, in particular
> >> it supports Uniscribe on Windows. So if XeTeX does not currently support
> >> Uniscribe, adding Harfbuzz support would also cheaply add Uniscribe
> >> support. Harfbuzz also has Graphite2 support so the old direct Graphite
> >> support in XeTeX could be replaced or complemented with
> >> Harfbuzz+Graphite2.
> >>
> >> XeTeX would be seriously improved if Harfbuzz support were added.
> >>
> >
> > Yes, that'd be a great step forward, now that the harfbuzz API is (I
> > think) reasonably stable. I'd love to see it to completely replace the
> > use of ICU layout eventually, but it's not quite ready for that yet.
> >
> > JK
> >
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