Graphite2-1.2.4

Introduction to Graphite2

Graphite2 is a rendering engine for graphite fonts. These are TrueType fonts with additional tables containing smart rendering information and were originally developed to support complex non-Roman writing systems. They may contain rules for e.g. ligatures, glyph substitution, kerning, justification - this can make them useful even on text written in Roman writing systems such as English. Note that firefox provides an internal copy of the graphite engine and cannot use a system version, but it too should benefit from the availability of graphite fonts.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.6 platform.

Package Information

Graphite2 Dependencies

Required

CMake-3.0.1

Optional

FreeType-2.5.3, Python-2.7.8, and silgraphite to build the comparerender test and benchmarking tool, and if that is present, Harfbuzz-0.9.35 to add more functionality to it (this is a circular dependency, you would need to first build graphite2 without harfbuzz).

To build the documentation, which is reported to be broken, would require all of AsciiDoc, Doxygen-1.8.8 and texlive-20140525.

Optional (at runtime)

You will need at least one suitable graphite font for the package to be useful.

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/graphite2

mkdir build &&
cd build &&
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr .. &&
make

make install