harfbuzz
opendyslexic
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33 | 295 | |
3,592 | 542 | |
1.5% | - | |
9.8 | 0.0 | |
5 days ago | about 2 years ago | |
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GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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harfbuzz
- HarfBuzz: Text Shaping Engine
- Rive Renderer – now open source and available on all platforms
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Libsodium: A modern, portable, easy to use crypto library
For C/C++ projects that use meson as the build system, there is an excellent way to manage dependencies:
https://mesonbuild.com/Wrapdb-projects.html
https://mesonbuild.com/Wrap-dependency-system-manual.html
meson will download and build the libraries automatically and give you a variable which you pass as a regular dependency into the built target:
https://github.com/qemu/qemu/tree/005ad32358f12fe9313a4a0191...
https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/tree/main/subprojects
https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/blob/37457412b3212463c5...
Or, if you're using proper operating systems, they're managed by the usual package manager, just like everything else.
- The Web Assembly Shaper
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Text Rendering Hates You
If you sympathize with the travails of people working on text rendering in applications, please consider supporting (among other projects):
1. The LibreOffice project (libreoffice.org), the free office application suite. This is where the rubber hits the road and developers deal with the extreme complexities of everything regarding text - shaping, styling, multi-object interaction, multi-language, you name it. And - they/we absolutely need donations to manage a project with > 200 million users: https://www.libreoffice.org/donate
2. harfbuzz (https://harfbuzz.github.io), and specifically Behdad Esfahood the main contributor. Although, TBH, I've not quite figured out whether you can donate to that or to him. At least star the project on GitHub I guess.
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ImGui or text rendering libraries
As for text, it depends very heavily on what exactly you need. Simple ASCII text and bitmap fonts? Just do it yourself or get a .bdf parser. Simple Latin/Cyrillic-like writing with ok-looking vector fonts (ttfs)? stb_truetype has all you need. Font hinting, subpixel rendering? You use freetype. More complex writing like Arabic? You will have to do shaping as well, say with HarfBuzz. Need right-to-left or unidirectional text? Hypenation? Go for platform APIs if you can (DirectWrite om Windows, CoreText on Mac).
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QuestPDF: Modern .NET library for PDF document generation
Gold standard? Even though serious bugs are not fixed [1] because "the code is too fragile to touch at this point"? Looks like Android uses HarfBuzz, if so it can't be that bad.
[1] https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues/2814
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A Programmable Markup Language for Typesetting [pdf]
The linked libraries are not even close to solving limited subsets of problems solved by FreeType or HarfBuzz. No test is needed if they do not even have a working implementation of particular requisites: Do they work on heterogeneous layouts, directions, languages, locales, scripts, symbols and composites, extensions, variations, legacy, missing, partial or corrupted instructions, standards interpretations, platforms, output devices, nonstandard point structures and grids?
They do not. What they solve is almost a toy problem compared to the size, scope and breadth of these libraries.
Just because some project is implemented in Rust does not make it comparable never mind superior by default.
There is a world out there and it is not homogeneous format and standards-compliant Latin fonts in English LTR text in linear disposition with some generic rectangular subpixel rendering on a regular rectangular grid.
I warmly welcome you to browse closed issues of FreeType [1] and also the closed issues of HarfBuzz [2]. If you feel inspired please do also look into mailing lists and discussion pages related to the development, building, tracking and patching of packages of these projects in any of the numerous places it is used.
The only argument Rust people have is in relation WASM but if you insist in targeting WASM why not fork FreeType, strip it to the strict subset of features your application needs and target it?
Why do it in the first place? Why reinvent the wheel?
As such I will restate my view: I see no gain in using any of these subpar libraries.
[1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/freetype/freetype/-/issues/?s...
[2] https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues?q=is%3Aclosed
- Harfbuzz 6.0
opendyslexic
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Do you have some methods to increase your reading?
I changed the font on my kindle to open dyslexic & it made a huge difference in my ability to focus on what I’m reading. You’ll know pretty quickly if it will work for you.
- Is there global autocorrect for linux?
- OpenDyslexic: A Typeface for Dyslexia
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Effect of Perceptual Load on Performance Within IDE in People with ADHD Symptoms
Too bad the article is not open-access, as I would expect from JetBrains.
Extra cognitive load slows everyone. It's just that the effect is measurably distinct in people with executive function (distractability) issues, with respect to speed. The distinction between debugging and coding is not really active vs monotonous but driven by your own ideas vs chasing (a problem). The study isn't realistic, but it's designed to get a measurable result (and to showcase the "efficiency tracking" plugin).
Anecdotally, everyone adjusts their IDE, or accommodates what can't (easily) be changed. Too bad that wisdom is lost and hard to share.
I think the solution here is more configurable UI's, with the configuration being automated/scriptable so that once you've established your preferences, you can replicate them through upgrades, etc.
The most configurable IDE of course is Eclipse (which is in decline because no one gets paid directly to write for it, and it's cheaper to publish a language server for your new language than build an IDE). You can arrange views as you like, change menu and toolbar visibility, change key bindings, and of course add whatever plugins/features you need. You can save view configurations as a workspace and save various preferences. But because components come from everywhere, support for configuration capture varies.
People share their dotfiles for shell and vi/emacs configuration, but not their IDE configurations. It's too bad, because then there would be a configuration population to analyze when raising UI issues.
ADHD and ASD are a broad spectrum. It may help to join the tribe because it validates our experience, but then we can fail to recognize our brain's specific biases. Worse, anyone over 7 has been getting good at compensating, which hides the issue, and our culture of excellence/competition/success == good (therefore failure bad) further obscures with shame, defeat, and self-sabotage. Legal requirements for accommodation help set a global floor, but may also work as a local ceiling by supplanting ordinary fellow-feeling.
For reading fatigue, consider a dyslexia font, e.g., https://opendyslexic.org.
- Home | OpenDyslexic. OpenDyslexic is a typeface designed against some common symptoms of dyslexia. If you like the way you are able to read this page, and others, then this typeface is for you!
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Dyslexia font support
GitHub link Website link Source license SIL-OFL I've come across this font that aims to make reading easier for people with dyslexia and I've never seen it implemented before. I feel like it would be really cool if it got implemented into more things :)
- I am genuinely confused about this and have been for a while, but always felt like I'd look stupid if I asked. Do historians not know what year he was born? Surely he would've known, and I imagine he would've told people.
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Boosts v2.5 wishlist
I would really like to see OpenDyslexic as a font option in boosts
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Does this happen to you guys as well?
https://opendyslexic.org This is where it was made I think you can download an add on here to change all your fonts, as well as ‘most’ applications use open dyslexia or dyslexia open as the font name
What are some alternatives?
imgui-sfml - Dear ImGui backend for use with SFML
comic-mono-font - A legible monospace font... the very typeface you’ve been trained to recognize since childhood
nanovg - Antialiased 2D vector drawing library on top of OpenGL for UI and visualizations.
comic-shanns - a classy font
contour - Modern C++ Terminal Emulator
fantasque-sans - A font family with a great monospaced variant for programmers.
c-ares - A C library for asynchronous DNS requests
Ligaturizer - Programming Fonts with Ligatures added (& a script to add them to other fonts)
imgui_sdl - ImGuiSDL: SDL2 based renderer for Dear ImGui
virgil - The font that powers Excalidraw
Tehreer-Android - Standalone text engine for Android aimed to be free from platform limitations
excalidraw - Virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn like diagrams