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------- Additional comments from hdu(a)openoffice.org Mon Apr 28 11:30:25 +0000 2008
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Another comment: From my POV the harfbuzz project will be the "libtextlayout" of
the FOSS world. On the
other hand VCL's text layout main focus is to do the delicate balancing act between
- not needing to rewrite all OOo application layer code from ground up
- trying to give them support for the modern text layout
So for writing new applications using OOo's wrapper layer around existing layout
engines is not a good
idea. But OOo will still be needed in the future. It could become much thinner though if
the FOSS layout
engines committed themselves to attack the really fascinating topic of full blown text
justification and
advanced typographic styles for OpenType (and eventually Graphite) fonts. Especially if
the layout results
were compatible with their counterparts from other platforms.
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