Unfortunately if the font has GPOS and 'mark' feature does
not position mark on dotted-circle, our inserted dotted-circle
will not get the mark repositioned to itself. Uniscribe cheats
here.
If there is no GPOS however, the fallback positioning kicks in
and sorts this out.
I'm not willing to address the first case.
This will eventually allow us to skip marks, as well as (fallback)
attach marks to ligature components of fallback-shaped Arabic.
That would be pretty cool. I kludged GDEF props in, so mark-skipping
works, but the produced ligature id/components will be cleared later
by substitute_start() et al.
Perhaps using a synthetic table for Arabic fallback shaping was a better
idea. The current approach has way too many layering violations...
The merger of normalizer and glyph-mapping broke shapers that
modified text stream. Unbreak them by adding a new preprocess_text
shaping stage that happens before normalizing/cmap and disallow
setup_mask modification of actual text.
Essentially move the glyph mapping to normalization process.
The effect on Devanagari is small (but observable). Should be more
observable in simple text, like ASCII.
'rclt' is "Required Contextual Forms" being proposed by Microsoft.
It's like 'calt', but supposedly always on. We apply 'calt' anyway,
and now apply this too.
At this point, the GDEF glyph synthesis looks pointless. Not that I
have many fonts without GDEF lying around.
As for mark advance zeroing when GPOS not available, that also is being
replaced by proper fallback mark positioning soon.
We need the font for glyph lookup during GSUB pauses in Indic shaper.
Could perhaps be avoided, but at this point, we don't mean to support
separate substitute()/position() entry points (anymore), so there is
no point in not providing the font to GSUB.
If there is no GPOS, zero mark advances.
If there *is* GPOS and the shaper requests so, zero mark advances for
attached marks.
Fixes regression with Tibetan, where the font has GPOS, and marks a
glyph as mark where it shouldn't get zero advance.
When we removed the separate Hangul shaper, the specific normalization
preference of Hangul was lost. Fix that. Also, the Thai shaper was
copied from Hangul, so had the fully-composed normalization behavior,
which was unnecessary. So, fix that too.
Also remove shaper_options argument to hb_shape_full(). That was
unused and for "future". Let it go.
More shaper API coming in preparation for plan/planned API.
Behdad Esfahbod