Re: Font files and vertical text

Werner LEMBERG <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.fonts.freetype.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>> 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.

Can you suggest or provide a documentation fix for the web page that
guides people into the right direction?


    Werner
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