Behdad Esfahbod

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icon location Canada icon location Behdad Esfahbod is an Iranian-Canadian Software Engineer prominently known for his work on Open Source projects, including HarfBuzz & FontTools.

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avar3: Multi layered virtual masters

> > I'm convinced myself that distilling it to avar2 will explode the number of tents. > > How is a high number of tents an actual problem? Okay I...

Text erasing is buggy

> I'm going to work on this issue. Reproduced for me. Thanks. I don't think this can be easily fixed in bicon. Using terminals that have native support for bidi...

Text erasing is buggy

> My original idea was using ncurses to generate escape sequences to erase it properly. Play with it. Honestly I don't even remember what bicon does for backspacing anymore.

Shaper Driven Itemisation

Thanks. I recommend this approach indeed. @khaledhosny has experience implementing it in LibreOffice, and @drott in Chrome. I'll add a sketch of the algorithm soon.

Shaper Driven Itemisation

Thanks. I'll get back to you soon.

Shaper Driven Itemisation

> I've implemented a naive implementation that passes the text through the shaper with the primary font and recursively fills in holes with fallback fonts. Do you have some code...