On Sat, May 11, 2019 at 4:13 AM Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> wrote:

> > From: Jonathan Kew <[email protected]>
> > Date: Sat, 11 May 2019 11:08:42 +0100
> >
> > You can use hb_face_create_for_tables, passing it a function that can
> > retrieve font tables (as hb_blobs) when requested by harfbuzz.
> >
> > This is what Firefox does, to use harfbuzz with Windows or MacOS font
> > APIs; a starting point to explore the Firefox code would be [1], where
> > we call hb_face_create_for_tables and pass it HBGetTable as the
> > reference_table_func. This calls down to the GetFontTable() method,
> > which has separate implementations for the various platforms.
>
> Thanks, this gets me a notch forward, but I'm afraid there's still a
> lot of fog.  Specifically, what does HarfBuzz expect from the
> hb_blob's it retrieves this way, and where and how does it use those
> blobs?
>

Or just use hb_face_create() and hb_font_create().

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