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<p class="title"><b>HarfBuzz</b></p>
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HarfBuzz is an <a class="ulink" href="http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/" target="_top">OpenType</a>
text shaping engine.
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The current HarfBuzz codebase, formerly known as harfbuzz-ng, is
versioned 1.x.x and is stable and under active maintenance. This is
what is used in latest versions of Firefox, GNOME, ChromeOS, Chrome,
LibreOffice, XeTeX, Android, and KDE, among other places. The canonical
source tree is available
<a class="ulink" href="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/harfbuzz/" target="_top">here</a>.
Also available on
<a class="ulink" href="https://github.com/behdad/harfbuzz" target="_top">github</a>.
See <a class="xref" href="install-harfbuzz.html#download" title="Download">Download</a> for release tarballs.
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The old HarfBuzz codebase, these days known as harfbuzz-old, was
derived from <a class="ulink" href="http://freetype.org/" target="_top">FreeType</a>,
<a class="ulink" href="http://pango.org/" target="_top">Pango</a>, and
<a class="ulink" href="http://qt-project.org/" target="_top">Qt</a> and is available
<a class="ulink" href="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/harfbuzz.old/" target="_top">here</a>.
It is not actively developed or maintained, and is extremely buggy. All
users are encouraged to switch over to the new HarfBuzz as soon as
possible. There are no release tarballs of old HarfBuzz whatsoever.
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<dt><span class="part"><a href="pt01.html">I. User's manual</a></span></dt>
<dd><dl>
<dt><span class="chapter"><a href="what-is-harfbuzz.html">What is Harfbuzz?</a></span></dt>
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<dt><span class="section"><a href="what-is-harfbuzz.html#why-do-i-need-it">Why do I need it?</a></span></dt>
<dt><span class="section"><a href="why-is-it-called-harfbuzz.html">Why is it called Harfbuzz?</a></span></dt>
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<dt><span class="chapter"><a href="install-harfbuzz.html">Install Harfbuzz</a></span></dt>
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<dt><span class="section"><a href="install-harfbuzz.html#download">Download</a></span></dt>
<dt><span class="section"><a href="building.html">Building</a></span></dt>
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<dt><span class="chapter"><a href="hello-harfbuzz.html">Hello, Harfbuzz</a></span></dt>
<dd><dl><dt><span class="section"><a href="hello-harfbuzz.html#what-harfbuzz-doesnt-do">What Harfbuzz doesn't do</a></span></dt></dl></dd>
<dt><span class="chapter"><a href="buffers-language-script-and-direction.html">Buffers, language, script and direction</a></span></dt>
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<dt><span class="section"><a href="buffers-language-script-and-direction.html#creating-and-destroying-buffers">Creating and destroying buffers</a></span></dt>
<dt><span class="section"><a href="adding-text-to-the-buffer.html">Adding text to the buffer</a></span></dt>
<dt><span class="section"><a href="setting-buffer-properties.html">Setting buffer properties</a></span></dt>
<dt><span class="section"><a href="what-about-the-other-scripts.html">What about the other scripts?</a></span></dt>
<dt><span class="section"><a href="customizing-unicode-functions.html">Customizing Unicode functions</a></span></dt>
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<dt><span class="chapter"><a href="fonts-and-faces.html">Fonts and faces</a></span></dt>
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<dt><span class="section"><a href="using-harfbuzzs-native-opentype-implementation.html">Using Harfbuzz's native OpenType implementation</a></span></dt>
<dt><span class="section"><a href="using-your-own-font-functions.html">Using your own font functions</a></span></dt>
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<dt><span class="chapter"><a href="shaping-and-shape-plans.html">Shaping and shape plans</a></span></dt>
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<dt><span class="section"><a href="shaping-and-shape-plans.html#opentype-features">OpenType features</a></span></dt>
<dt><span class="section"><a href="plans-and-caching.html">Plans and caching</a></span></dt>
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<dt><span class="part"><a href="pt02.html">II. Reference manual</a></span></dt>
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<dt><span class="chapter"><a href="ch07.html">Harfbuzz API</a></span></dt>
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<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="harfbuzz-hb.html">hb</a></span><span class="refpurpose"></span>
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<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="harfbuzz-hb-common.html">hb-common</a></span><span class="refpurpose"></span>
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<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="harfbuzz-hb-unicode.html">hb-unicode</a></span><span class="refpurpose"></span>
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<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="harfbuzz-Buffers.html">Buffers</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — Input and output buffers</span>
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<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="harfbuzz-hb-blob.html">hb-blob</a></span><span class="refpurpose"></span>
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<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="harfbuzz-hb-face.html">hb-face</a></span><span class="refpurpose"></span>
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<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="harfbuzz-hb-font.html">hb-font</a></span><span class="refpurpose"></span>
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<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="harfbuzz-Shaping.html">Shaping</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — Conversion of text strings into positioned glyphs</span>
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<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="harfbuzz-hb-version.html">hb-version</a></span><span class="refpurpose"></span>
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<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="harfbuzz-hb-ot-layout.html">hb-ot-layout</a></span><span class="refpurpose"></span>
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<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="harfbuzz-hb-ot-tag.html">hb-ot-tag</a></span><span class="refpurpose"></span>
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<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="harfbuzz-hb-ot-font.html">hb-ot-font</a></span><span class="refpurpose"></span>
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<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="harfbuzz-hb-ot-shape.html">hb-ot-shape</a></span><span class="refpurpose"></span>
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<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="harfbuzz-hb-shape-plan.html">hb-shape-plan</a></span><span class="refpurpose"></span>
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<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="harfbuzz-hb-ft.html">hb-ft</a></span><span class="refpurpose"></span>
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<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="harfbuzz-hb-graphite2.html">hb-graphite2</a></span><span class="refpurpose"></span>
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<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="harfbuzz-hb-gobject.html">hb-gobject</a></span><span class="refpurpose"></span>
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<dt><span class="chapter"><a href="object-tree.html">Object Hierarchy</a></span></dt>
<dt><span class="index"><a href="api-index-full.html">API Index</a></span></dt>
<dt><span class="index"><a href="api-index-0-9-2.html">Index of new symbols in 0.9.2</a></span></dt>
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<dt><span class="index"><a href="deprecated-api-index.html">Index of deprecated API</a></span></dt>
<dt><span class="glossary"><a href="annotation-glossary.html">Annotation Glossary</a></span></dt>
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