any news??? 2012/6/29, Jonathan Kew <jfkth...@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 > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex >
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