[luatex] Indic scripts

[luigi scarso]

On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 12:15 PM, Arthur Reutenauer
<arthur.reutenauer at normalesup.org> wrote:
>   That’s correct, XeTeX uses Harfbuzz that is embedded in the engine;
> that is to say that XeTeX itself can do the rendering and does not rely
> on macro packages.  There is regular talk of libraries or macro packages
> that could interface Harfbuzz with LuaTeX, but nothing concrete has come
> out of it (yet?).

https://www.guitex.org/home/en/numero-23-aprile-2017

Foreign Function Interface in LuaTeX

Hans shown how to use luaffi to  connect to (the shared lib version of
) harfbuzz
plus a comparison of context vs harfbuzz vs uniscribe  text shaping engines
(experimental, and only under windows , but definitively something to
develop further, being very useful for font development).

-- 
luigi