Behdad Esfahbod
Behdad Esfahbod
My main hesitation about doing X-direction calculations immediately is that in some future when we add directions to lookups, and have to reverse the buffer multiple times in between, be...
> Or maybe I just need to look at the target direction instead of current buffer direction. That's not immediately available to the GPOS code though.
> This is my current working patch that fails only four tests: Alternative patch, only doing the y-direction immediately. The same four tests fail. So I'll see about them. ```diff...
> Does the existing rendering difference occur only with cursive attachment (type 3 lookups) or is it also problematic for single- or pair- adjustment kerning (type 1 and 2 lookups,...
> Urgh, I think this is affecting the new Noto Nastaliq Urdu. I don't think it's the same issue. Otherwise CoreText/Dwrite would have matched and HB differed.
Another way to think about it is that we want a subset mode that only specific strings are needed to be rendered. Ie. a true `--text`. I'll think about how...
> > Another way to think about it is that we want a subset mode that only specific strings are needed to be rendered. Ie. a true `--text`. I'll think...
> Wild idea, shape and only keep glyphs in the final output (instead of GSUB closure). OK, this does not capture intermediate glyphs. A more wild idea, use tracing infrastructure...
This is nice! Thanks. Lemme think about it a bit more. Can you perform it on the Material icon-font as requested in this issue?