Re: Announcing HarfPy
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[email protected]>
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| Organization | Geek Central |
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On Tue, 2 Aug 2016 15:29:03 +1200, I wrote: > Following on from my Python wrapper for FriBidi, here > <https://github.com/ldo/harfpy> is one for HarfBuzz. I have expanded the readme with a couple of walk-through examples: an adaptation of the very basic hello-harfbuzz example, and a more detailed one showing how to render a full line of bidirectional text, using FriBidi (via PyBidi <https://github.com/ldo/pybidi>), Cairo (via Qahirah <https://github.com/ldo/qahirah>) and FreeType (via python_freetype <https://github.com/ldo/python_freetype>). There seem to be a few gaps between the various APIs that I had to fill in with convenience wrappers. For example, HarfBuzz can only deal with a single directional run at a time, whereas FriBidi doesn’t provide any straightforward way of extracting these. I also provided a convenience routine that takes the information from the HarfBuzz get_glyph_infos and get_glyph_positions calls, and turns that into a sequence of Cairo glyphs. -- cairo mailing list [email protected] https://lists.cairographics.org/mailman/listinfo/cairo