[sword-devel] HarfBuzz

[Michael H]

Slightly related, but still a degree of separation or two away from Sword
technology:

SILE is a pagebuilder program. SILE directly uses Harfbuzz. The programmer,
Simon Cozens, is investing in SILE to get Bibles into peoples hands...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_kk20vlamo
https://github.com/simoncozens/sile



On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 8:25 AM, Karl Kleinpaste <karl at kleinpaste.org>
wrote:

> On 12/13/2015 01:51 AM, Peter von Kaehne wrote:
>
> relies on something else (webkit) which in turn (via gtk?) relies on
> pango which in turn relies on harfbuzz if it is there.
>
> pango and pangocairo are libs installed (in Fedora) as the pango package.
> pangocairo loads harfbuzz dynamically -- it is not part of the build/link
> of Xiphos, but is inhaled during runtime by pangocairo.
>
> I am not sure if our Windows version of Xiphos needs to bundle all this
> stuff and where it gets it from
>
> Yes, certainly; libharfbuzz and libharfbuzz-icu are among the libs listed
> in makeDistro.sh for inclusion in the installer.  They are available via
> mingw packages.
>
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