Package: textshaping 1.0.5

Thomas Lin Pedersen

textshaping: Bindings to the 'HarfBuzz' and 'Fribidi' Libraries for Text Shaping

Provides access to the text shaping functionality in the 'HarfBuzz' library and the bidirectional algorithm in the 'Fribidi' library. 'textshaping' is a low-level utility package mainly for graphic devices that expands upon the font tool-set provided by the 'systemfonts' package.

Authors:Thomas Lin Pedersen [cre, aut], Posit Software, PBC [cph, fnd]

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textshaping/json (API)
NEWS

# Install 'textshaping' in R:
install.packages('textshaping', repos = c('https://carpentries.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))

Bug tracker:https://github.com/r-lib/textshaping/issues

Uses libs:
  • harfbuzz– OpenType text shaping engine
  • freetype– FreeType 2 font engine
  • fribidi– Free Implementation of the Unicode BiDi algorithm
  • c++– GNU Standard C++ Library v3

On CRAN:

Conda:

harfbuzzfreetypefribidicpp

13.83 score 20 stars 800 packages 87 scripts 897k downloads 6 exports 8 dependencies

Last updated from:dcf087151c (on v1.0.5). Checks:13 OK. Indexed: no.

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linux-devel-x86_64OK141
source / vignettesOK207
linux-release-arm64OK132
linux-release-x86_64OK152
macos-release-arm64OK124
macos-release-x86_64OK219
macos-oldrel-arm64OK136
macos-oldrel-x86_64OK221
windows-develOK116
windows-releaseOK102
windows-oldrelOK108
wasm-releaseOK134

Exports:get_font_featureslorem_bidilorem_textplot_shapeshape_texttext_width

Dependencies:base64encclicpp11jsonlitelifecyclerlangstringisystemfonts

textshaping C interface

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Last update: 2025-06-11
Started: 2020-08-27