From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Werner LEMBERG Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Haiku port Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2021 08:39:52 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <20210826.103952.1433983235076356158.wl@gnu.org> References: <87a6l47j32.fsf.ref@yahoo.com> <87a6l47j32.fsf@yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="35909"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: luangruo@yahoo.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 26 10:41:09 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mJAwe-000953-Jj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 26 Aug 2021 10:41:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60864 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mJAwd-0006z0-8X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 26 Aug 2021 04:41:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46668) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mJAva-0006Km-Bo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Aug 2021 04:40:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mout01.posteo.de ([185.67.36.65]:50427) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mJAvY-0006fD-Cb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Aug 2021 04:40:02 -0400 Original-Received: from submission (posteo.de [89.146.220.130]) by mout01.posteo.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 115D524002B for ; Thu, 26 Aug 2021 10:39:57 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from customer (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by submission (posteo.de) with ESMTPSA id 4GwGW136Wrz6tmN; Thu, 26 Aug 2021 10:39:57 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <87a6l47j32.fsf@yahoo.com> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=185.67.36.65; envelope-from=werner.lemberg@posteo.de; helo=mout01.posteo.de X-Spam_score_int: -39 X-Spam_score: -4.0 X-Spam_bar: ---- X-Spam_report: (-4.0 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2=-0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:273017 Archived-At: > I also think the BFont font driver needs work -- it has artifacting > with RTL text and when drawing condensed characters, but font > rendering is quite certainly outside my field of expertise, and I > would appreciate help from an expert. (Though, ideally, we would > have a FreeType-based font driver, but I think FreeType is not > easily usable within Haiku applications). [Wearing the FreeType maintainer hat] Why do you think that FreeType can't be used within Haiku applications? Looking around in the web I see this Haiku demo program: https://github.com/deepango/DemoHarfbuzzApp Note that I don't have any clue of Haiku or BeOS :-) Werner