[luatex] 'glyphing' for smart font rendering

Taco Hoekwater taco at elvenkind.com
Sat Mar 26 09:26:47 CET 2011


On 03/25/2011 07:59 AM, Martin Hosken wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I've started investigating how hard it is to do real smart font
> rendering by trying to integrate graphite with luatex (via lua).

Interesting idea.

> Am I right in assuming that it is intended that once a glyph node is
> no longer a character node but has become a glyph node, that it

That is the plan, but the current code is not there yet. At the
moment, it still takes the actual width/height/depth/italic &
tounicode values from the actual font definition.

> I did try to build luatex but it fell over trying to find ptexenc.h
> from lib/ptexenc. Is that something that should be checked in?

Try running "build.sh" at top level, not configure itself.

Best wishes,
Taco


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