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-<a name="what-is-harfbuzz"></a>What is Harfbuzz?</h2></div></div></div>
+<a name="what-is-harfbuzz"></a>What is HarfBuzz?</h2></div></div></div>
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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>
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- Harfbuzz is a <span class="emphasis"><em>text shaping engine</em></span>. It solves
+ HarfBuzz is a <span class="emphasis"><em>text shaping engine</em></span>. It solves
the problem of selecting and positioning glyphs from a font given a
Unicode string.
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Text shaping is an integral part of preparing text for display. It
- is a fairly low level operation; Harfbuzz is used directly by
+ is a fairly low level operation; HarfBuzz is used directly by
graphic rendering libraries such as Pango, and the layout engines
in Firefox, LibreOffice and Chromium. Unless you are
<span class="emphasis"><em>writing</em></span> one of these layout engines yourself,
- you will probably not need to use Harfbuzz - normally higher level
+ you will probably not need to use HarfBuzz - normally higher level
libraries will turn text into glyphs for you.
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However, if you <span class="emphasis"><em>are</em></span> writing a layout engine
or graphics library yourself, you will need to perform text
- shaping, and this is where Harfbuzz can help you. Here are some
+ shaping, and this is where HarfBuzz can help you. Here are some
reasons why you need it:
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If this is something that you need to do, then you need a text
shaping engine: you could use Uniscribe if you are using Windows;
- you could use CoreText on OS X; or you could use Harfbuzz. In the
+ you could use CoreText on OS X; or you could use HarfBuzz. In the
rest of this manual, we are going to assume that you are the
implementor of a text layout engine.
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