Re: Re: how update the website for the complex layout

The words are a bit harsh but I have no objection ;-)

On 2021/05/16 18:03, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Sun, 16 May 2021 17:31:17 +0900, suzuki toshiya wrote:
> 
>> Yet I don't have a good answer to a person saying "I don't care
>> the right-to-left scripts, or the complex glyph shaping like various
>> Indic scripts, I understand they need very complicated technology.
>> But I just want the support for CJK vertical writing mode, it should
>> be possible that raw FT2 supports it?
> 
> The kind of people who need to ask this sort of question are precisely
> the sort who would not be able to figure out the details that layers
> like HarfBuzz and Cairo already deal with for them.
> 
>> The dependency chain before
>> HarfBuzz, like X11, pixman, cairo, glib, C++, etc etc are too long
>> for me!"
> 
> Reimplementing these functions for themselves would take even longer.
>