[XeTeX] openType and xetex

Khaled Hosny khaledhosny at eglug.org
Tue Dec 3 22:43:22 CET 2013


http://tug.org/pipermail/xetex/2013-March/024118.html

On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 08:23:02PM +0100, Youcef Mohammed wrote:
> i do...
> 
> 
> 2013/12/3, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org>:
> > 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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