[luatex] Indic scripts

[Mike Maxwell]

On 3/24/2018 7:37 AM, luigi scarso wrote:
> 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).

Thanks, I'll watch this space.  Hopefully someone will also make it work 
in Linux.

FWIW, now that I know what to look for, I see there are a couple-three 
(maybe more) other projects aimed at making LuaTeX work together with 
HarfBuzz (probably not all under active development):

https://github.com/tatzetwerk/luatex-harfbuzz
https://github.com/deepakjois/luatex-harfbuzz
http://tug.org/pipermail/luatex/2015-May/005192.html
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