Open mikayla-maki opened 1 month ago
Please consider working with me on cosmic-text support for any features you need. If you directly use harfbuzz you will need to implement your own layout and font fallback code, which is not trivial.
- Doesn't use fontconfig
This seems to be either untrue or an oversight in your usage of cosmic-text
as it provides fontconfig
feature that is enabled by default, it's backed by fontdb
and not fontconfig library (so it doesn't link to it), doesn't support all of fontconfig, but some subset of it is supported.
I'm reading that cosmic-text is more likely to continue being used here, but if you're considering harfbuzz, consider also using swash instead. There's also a complex demo of it (for context, this is a fork of mine that is more up-to-date).
Our current text system:
Let's replace it with HarfBuzz