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		csande17 on Dec 31, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Text layout is a loose hierarchy of segmentation (... I don't think any individual language is too hard—after all, humans can learn to read and write them—but doing all of them at once is tricky.

hsn915 on Dec 31, 2022 [–]

That hard part is already done by HarfBuzz; segmenting text for feeding it into harfbuzz is not that hard. I've done it with hardly any prior experience (and even written a blog post about it)

https://hasen.substack.com/p/imgui-text

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