On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Hans Hagen
Yue Wang wrote:
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so if you wan tto use those libraries use xetex instead then (no gain in using luatex); the objective of the luatex project is to have a regular opened up tex engine with all under user/macro package control
Harfbuzz is not a high level language layout engine like ICU that is used in xetex. It is just a OTF loading library (it's the successor of freetype1 otf loading code). And it will be the opensource opentype rendering standard in the future.
eventually (when luatex is mostly finished) one can always consider using libraries (i.e. converting node lists to whatever some library likes and convert what comes back to node lists) but that is then just one of the methods and not part of the luatex project
Hans
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