See thread "Issue with cursive attachment" started by Khaled.
Turned out fixing this wasn't as bad as I had assumed. I like the
new code better; we now have a theoretical model of cursive
connections that is easier to reason about.
This makes a lot of code safer. We only try modifying the object in one
place, after making sure it's safe to do so. So, do a const_cast<> in
that one place...
Currently:
- Initializing skippy is very expensive,
- Our lookup accelerator (using set-digests) can be very ineffecite,
As such, we end up many times initializing skippy but then failing
coverage check. Reordering fixes that.
When, later, we fix our accelerator to have truly small false-positive
rate (for example by using the frozen-sets), then we might want to
reorder these checks such that we wouldn't calculate coverage number
if skippy is going to fail.
This shows a 5% speedup with Roboto already.
Roboto has glyphs (like 'F') that have 200 kerning pairs.
Add a handcoded bsearch instead of previous linear search.
This doesn't show much speedup though, apparently we spend the
bulk of the time somewhere before here.
Before we were just relying on the compiler inlining them and not
leaving a trace in our public API. Try to fix. Hopefully not
breaking anyone's build.
When matching lookups, be smart about default-ignorable characters.
In particular:
Do nothing specific about ZWNJ, but for the other default-ignorables:
If the lookup in question uses the ignorable character in a sequence,
then match it as we used to do. However, if the sequence match will
fail because the default-ignorable blocked it, try skipping the
ignorable character and continue.
The most immediate thing it means is that if Lam-Alef forms a ligature,
then Lam-ZWJ-Alef will do to. Finally!
One exception: when matching for GPOS, or for backtrack/lookahead of
GSUB, we ignore ZWNJ too. That's the right thing to do.
It certainly is possible to build fonts that this feature will result
in undesirable glyphs, but it's hard to think of a real-world case
that that would happen.
This *does* break Indic shaping right now, since Indic Unicode has
specific rules for what ZWJ/ZWNJ mean, and skipping ZWJ is breaking
those rules. That will be fixed in upcoming commits.
Before, we were zeroing advance width of attached marks for
non-Indic scripts, and not doing it for Indic.
We have now three different behaviors, which seem to better
reflect what Uniscribe is doing:
- For Indic, no explicit zeroing happens whatsoever, which
is the same as before,
- For Myanmar, zero advance width of glyphs marked as marks
*in GDEF*, and do that *before* applying GPOS. This seems
to be what the new Win8 Myanmar shaper does,
- For everything else, zero advance width of glyphs that are
from General_Category=Mn Unicode characters, and do so
before applying GPOS. This seems to be what Uniscribe does
for Latin at least.
With these changes, positioning of all tests matches for Myanmar,
except for the glitch in Uniscribe not applying 'mark'. See preivous
commit.
Before, when matching ligatures, we never skipping over base / liga
glyphs even if that was what the LookupFlags asked for.
Fixed now. We carefully reviewed all instances of this, and tested with
Amiri as well as some Indic scripts, and are confident that this should
NOT break anyone's fonts. It's also how Uniscribe does it, from what
we can tell.
Behdad Esfahbod
Konstantin Ritt