# harfbuzz_rs
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`harfbuzz_rs` is a high-level interface to HarfBuzz, exposing its most important
functionality in a safe manner using Rust.
# What is HarfBuzz?
HarfBuzz is a library for performing complex text layout. It does not perform
any drawing. This is quite a low-level operation. If you want to simply draw
some text on the screen you should maybe choose another more high-level library.
However if you want to build a library for drawing text on some canvas or need a
lot of control on advanced text layout then this is the right library to use.
# Getting Started
To shape a simple string of text you just create a `Font` from a font file, fill
a `Buffer` with some text and call the `shape` function.
```rust
use harfbuzz_rs::*;
let path = "path/to/some/font_file.otf";
let index = 0; //< face index in the font file
let face = Face::from_file(path, index)?;
let mut font = Font::new(face);
let buffer = UnicodeBuffer::new().add_str("Hello World!");
let output = shape(&font, buffer, &[]);
// The results of the shaping operation are stored in the `output` buffer.
let positions = output.get_glyph_positions();
let infos = output.get_glyph_infos();
// iterate over the shaped glyphs
for (position, info) in positions.iter().zip(infos) {
let gid = info.codepoint;
let cluster = info.cluster;
let x_advance = position.x_advance;
let x_offset = position.x_offset;
let y_offset = position.y_offset;
// Here you would usually draw the glyphs.
println!("gid{:?}={:?}@{:?},{:?}+{:?}", gid, cluster, x_advance, x_offset, y_offset);
}
```
This should print out something similar to the following:
```text
gid41=0@741,0+0
gid70=1@421,0+0
gid77=2@258,0+0
gid77=3@253,0+0
gid80=4@510,0+0
gid1=5@227,0+0
gid56=6@874,0+0
gid80=7@498,0+0
gid83=8@367,0+0
gid77=9@253,0+0
gid69=10@528,0+0
gid2=11@276,0+0
```
# Optional Features
If you want to use rusttype as font functions enable the `rusttype` feature.