The reason we turned it on is because Kazuraki uses it. But that's
not reason enough. Until the OpenType spec gets its act together re
adding design-direction to lookups, this is better user experience.
Previously, we expected users to provide BOT/EOT flags when the
text *segment* was at paragraph boundaries. This meant that for
clients that provide full paragraph to HarfBuzz (eg. Pango), they
had code like this:
hb_buffer_set_flags (hb_buffer,
(item_offset == 0 ? HB_BUFFER_FLAG_BOT : 0) |
(item_offset + item_length == paragraph_length ?
HB_BUFFER_FLAG_EOT : 0));
hb_buffer_add_utf8 (hb_buffer,
paragraph_text, paragraph_length,
item_offset, item_length);
After this change such clients can simply say:
hb_buffer_set_flags (hb_buffer,
HB_BUFFER_FLAG_BOT | HB_BUFFER_FLAG_EOT);
hb_buffer_add_utf8 (hb_buffer,
paragraph_text, paragraph_length,
item_offset, item_length);
Ie, HarfBuzz itself checks whether the segment is at the beginning/end
of the paragraph. Clients that only pass item-at-a-time to HarfBuzz
continue not setting any flags whatsoever.
Another way to put it is: if there's pre-context text in the buffer,
HarfBuzz ignores the BOT flag. If there's post-context, it ignores
EOT flag.
Originally we fixed those in 79d1007a50.
However, fonts like MongolianWhite don't have GDEF, but have IgnoreMarks
in their LigatureSubstitute init/etc features. We were synthesizing a
GDEF class of mark for Mongolian Variation Selectors and as such the
ligature lookups where not matching. Uniscribe doesn't do that.
I tried with more sophisticated fixes, like, if there is no GDEF and
a lookup-flag mismatch happens, instead of rejecting a match, try
skipping that glyph. That surely produces some interesting behavior,
but since we don't want to support fonts missing GDEF more than we have
to, I went for this simpler fix which is to always mark
default-ignorables as base when synthesizing GDEF.
Micro-test added.
Fixes rest of https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65258
When seeing U+2044 FRACTION SLASH in the text, find decimal
digits (Unicode General Category Decimal_Number) around it,
and mark the pre-slash digits with 'numr' feature, the post-slash
digits with 'dnom' feature, and the whole sequence with 'frac'
feature.
This beautifully renders fractions with major Windows fonts,
and any other font that implements those features (numr/dnom is
enough for most fonts.)
Not the fastest way to do this, but good enough for a start.
This reverts commit d5bd0590ae.
The reasoning behind that logic was flawed and made under
a misunderstanding of the original problem, and caused
regressions as reported by Jonathan Kew in thread titled
"tibetan marks" in Oct 2013. Apparently I have had fixed
the original problem with this commit:
7e08f1258d
So, revert the faulty commit and everything seems to be in good
shape.
Before, if one called hb_shape() without setting script, language, and
direction on the buffer, hb_shape() was calling
hb_buffer_guess_segment_properties() on the user's behalf to guess
these.
This is very dangerous, since any serious user of HarfBuzz must set
these properly (specially important is direction). So now, we don't
guess properties by default. People not setting direction will get
an abort() now. If the old behavior is desired (fragile, good for
simple testing only), users can call
hb_buffer_guess_segment_properties() on the buffer just before calling
hb_shape().
This is a followup to 568000274c.
Looks like in the Latin shaper, Uniscribe zeroes all Unicode NSM
advances *after* GPOS, not before. Match that.
Can be tested using DejaVu Sans Mono, since that font has GPOS
rules to zero the mark advances on its own.
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.
API additions:
hb_segment_properties_t
HB_SEGMENT_PROPERTIES_DEFAULT
hb_segment_properties_equal()
hb_segment_properties_hash()
hb_buffer_set_segment_properties()
hb_buffer_get_segment_properties()
hb_ot_layout_glyph_class_t
hb_shape_plan_t
hb_shape_plan_create()
hb_shape_plan_create_cached()
hb_shape_plan_get_empty()
hb_shape_plan_reference()
hb_shape_plan_destroy()
hb_shape_plan_set_user_data()
hb_shape_plan_get_user_data()
hb_shape_plan_execute()
hb_ot_shape_plan_collect_lookups()
API changes:
Rename hb_ot_layout_feature_get_lookup_indexes() to
hb_ot_layout_feature_get_lookups().
New header file:
hb-shape-plan.h
And a bunch of prototyped but not implemented stuff. Coming soon.
(Tests fail because of the prototypes right now.)
New API:
hb_buffer_flags_t
HB_BUFFER_FLAGS_DEFAULT
HB_BUFFER_FLAG_BOT
HB_BUFFER_FLAG_EOT
HB_BUFFER_FLAG_PRESERVE_DEFAULT_IGNORABLES
hb_buffer_set_flags()
hb_buffer_get_flags()
We use the BOT flag to decide whether to insert dottedcircle if the
first char in the buffer is a combining mark.
The PRESERVE_DEFAULT_IGNORABLES flag prevents removal of characters like
ZWNJ/ZWJ/...
Had to do some refactoring to make this happen...
Under uniscribe bug compatibility mode, we still plit them
Uniscrie-style, but Jonathan and I convinced ourselves that there is no
harm doing this the Unicode way. This change makes that happen, and
unbreaks free Sinhala fonts.
That's really the logic desired. Except that MONGOLIAN VOWEL SEPARATOR
is not default_ignorable but it really should be. Reported to Unicode.
Based on suggestion from Konstantin Ritt.
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.
Sascha Brawer
Behdad Esfahbod
Jonathan Kew