[cairo] Documentation typos.
Simon Sapin
simon.sapin at exyr.org
Sat Jan 5 17:01:55 PST 2013
Docs for cairo_glyph_t say that …
> Cairo doesn't expose any way of converting input text into glyphs
… while cairo_scaled_font_text_to_glyphs() is there since 1.8.
A better way to say this is that cairo only does primitive *shaping*
(aka text → glyphs conversion) by placing glyphs next to each other,
moving the cursor by each glyph’s X and Y *advance* metric.
This is okay-ish for Latin text, but quality shaping (with ligatures,
kerning, etc.) or even correct shaping (in some writing script) requires
another library like Pango.
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Simon Sapin
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