Re: Font files and vertical text

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.fonts.freetype.user
Organization Geek Central
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Sat, 15 May 2021 15:16:25 +0900, suzuki toshiya wrote:

> The modern applications trying to support the
> CJK vertical writing mode use more complicated frameworks, like
> HarfBuzz.

Too many times I see questions on this list from people trying to do
complicated font rendering directly in FreeType, when they should be
using higher-level rendering/shaping engines like Cairo, HarfBuzz and
Fribidi. They should be saving themselves some work.
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