From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>
Cc: handa@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: how reliable is rendering of complex scripts?
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2015 12:57:19 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83lhbj0xds.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151004.114017.420424381.wl@gnu.org>
> Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2015 11:40:17 +0200 (CEST)
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, handa@gnu.org
> From: Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>
>
> > Perhaps a good first step would be for someone to produce pictures
> > of the rendered texts from those tests (using Harfbuzz or anything
> > else that can be used as reference), and then we could compare that
> > with what Emacs produces for the same texts, and see how good or bad
> > we are doing.
>
> This is *exactly* what should be avoided IMHO. It's both far too much
> work and too imprecise.
Not if it's the only practical alternative (besides doing nothing).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-04 9:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-02 5:39 how reliable is rendering of complex scripts? Werner LEMBERG
2015-10-02 7:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-04 4:39 ` Werner LEMBERG
2015-10-04 7:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-04 8:09 ` Werner LEMBERG
2015-10-04 9:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-04 9:40 ` Werner LEMBERG
2015-10-04 9:57 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2015-10-04 18:06 ` John Wiegley
2015-10-04 19:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-04 21:43 ` John Wiegley
2015-10-05 6:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-05 18:18 ` John Wiegley
2015-10-05 19:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-06 16:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
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