drewdevault,
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First 12 months of writing a GUI toolkit: getting text rendering right

ashkano,
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@drewdevault next 12 months: animations/transitions

drewdevault,
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@ashkano nah tbh these are pretty easy IMHO

duncan_bayne,
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@drewdevault The next 12 months: responding to all the issues people raise for the arcane text rendering edge cases you missed 😅

drewdevault,
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@duncan_bayne my sample texts include japanese, korean, arabic, hebrew, thai, khmer, and lao samples... fingers crossed

lritter,
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@drewdevault have you met our lord and savior stb_truetype.h

drewdevault,
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@lritter how not to get text rendering right

lritter,
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@drewdevault pango it is then!

drewdevault,
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@lritter nope

lritter,
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@drewdevault ... freetype?

drewdevault,
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@lritter harfbuzz and cairo baby, fuck it we're doing it live

lritter,
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@drewdevault ah right. i keep forgetting about cairo. even though i share credits for the c++ bindings. ;-)

wait a sec... what did they do...

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/cairo/cairomm/-/commit/9b5faf3d9de1ce989c389f1000d3ef6c0d7bd7fb

drewdevault,
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@lritter womp womp

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