Re: [HarfBuzz] harfbuzz versus fribidi

2015-12-22 Thread Eduardo Castineyra
On 12/22/2015 11:21 AM, Khaled Hosny wrote: On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 11:27:40AM +0200, Eduardo Castineyra wrote: On 8/25/2015 2:51 PM, Graham Douglas wrote: On 25/08/2015 13:26, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: I should add API to FriBidi to align it better for use with HarfBuzz... Hi Behdad Yes, yes +

Re: [HarfBuzz] harfbuzz versus fribidi

2015-12-22 Thread Graham Douglas
On 22/12/2015 10:21, Khaled Hosny wrote: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 11:27:40AM +0200, Eduardo Castineyra wrote: >> On 8/25/2015 2:51 PM, Graham Douglas wrote: >>> On 25/08/2015 13:26, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: I should add API to FriBidi to align it better for use with HarfBuzz... >>> Hi Behdad >>

Re: [HarfBuzz] harfbuzz versus fribidi

2015-12-22 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 11:27:40AM +0200, Eduardo Castineyra wrote: > On 8/25/2015 2:51 PM, Graham Douglas wrote: > >On 25/08/2015 13:26, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > >>I should add API to FriBidi to align it better for use with HarfBuzz... > >Hi Behdad > > > >Yes, yes + yes --- that would be awesome :

Re: [HarfBuzz] harfbuzz versus fribidi

2015-08-26 Thread Eduardo Castineyra
On 8/25/2015 2:51 PM, Graham Douglas wrote: On 25/08/2015 13:26, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: I should add API to FriBidi to align it better for use with HarfBuzz... Hi Behdad Yes, yes + yes --- that would be awesome :-) Second. Eduardo. ___ HarfBuzz ma

Re: [HarfBuzz] harfbuzz versus fribidi

2015-08-25 Thread Graham Douglas
On 25/08/2015 13:26, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > I should add API to FriBidi to align it better for use with HarfBuzz... Hi Behdad Yes, yes + yes --- that would be awesome :-) Cheers Graham ___ HarfBuzz mailing list HarfBuzz@lists.freedesktop.org http://l

Re: [HarfBuzz] harfbuzz versus fribidi

2015-08-25 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Thanks Eduardo for the excellent explanation! On 15-08-22 03:27 PM, eduardo wrote: > But if you want both things, you have to send the text first to FriBidi, then > to harfbuzz and always tell harfbuzz the text is LTR, because fribidi already > put the arabic characters in their correct order and

Re: [HarfBuzz] harfbuzz versus fribidi

2015-08-25 Thread Stephen Burke
Thanks. That explanation put together some pieces that weren't fully making sense like why fribidi was doing the shaping for Arabic/Persian and Hebrew. Is there a project using Harfbuzz that I can look at for some sample code or if not what header should I start looking at? I tried searching thr

Re: [HarfBuzz] harfbuzz versus fribidi

2015-08-22 Thread eduardo
Hi Stephen, AFAIK, harfbuzz is not a replacement for fribidi. They are different libraries that solve diferent problems. (disclaimer: this information is probably very inaccurate but it ended up working for us) Fribidi solves bidirectional text layout and Harfbuzz solves text shaping.

[HarfBuzz] harfbuzz versus fribidi

2015-08-21 Thread Stephen Burke
I just put in support for bidi text using fribidi and the log2vis api. There are numerous warnings about using this api saying it is deprecated but it is the most user friendly for a developer. Can you describe the upgrade path to harfbuzz? Why would I want to use that library and what's the diff