HarfBuzz::Shaper

HarfBuzz::Shaper is a perl module that provides access to a small subset of the native HarfBuzz library.

The subset is suitable for typesetting programs that need to deal with complex languages like Devanagari.

This module is intended to be used with module LText::Layout. Feel free to use it for other purposes.

INSTALLATION

Building the HarfBuzz::Shaper module requires the harfbuzz library to be installed on your system. Most modern systems provide this library.

To install this module type the following:

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

SUPPORT AND DOCUMENTATION

Development of this module takes place on GitHub: https://github.com/sciurius/perl-HarfBuzz-Shaper.

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

perldoc HarfBuzz::Shaper

Please report any bugs or feature requests using the issue tracker on GitHub.

HarfBuzz website and documentation: https://harfbuzz.github.io/index.html.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

Copyright (C) 2020,2026 by Johan Vromans

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.