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SFML development / Re: Font/Text Direction
« on: Today at 09:52:07 am »
I believe SFML's font would need to adjust a lot more than just providing the horizontal advance when trying to support non-horizontal layouts.
Meaning, I'm not against changing this, just questioning if that's actually helpful.
Also I found this page and the graphics helpful to understand the terminology.
Meaning, I'm not against changing this, just questioning if that's actually helpful.
Also I found this page and the graphics helpful to understand the terminology.
I wonder if that advance is ever used in normal LTR text too or just for column writing systems. FT docs don't say. sf::Text and sf::Font are also a bit iffy for RTL text (technically you can reverse your string before inputting it but that's a bit of a hack to make RTL be just LTR backwards), and has 0 shaping needed for cursive scripts (like HarfBuzz has).Eventually, we'll be integrating HarfBuzz, but we'd first have to solve the dependency issue.