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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manual.pdf |manual.html✨
card.svg |card.png
textshaping/json (API)
NEWS

# Install 'textshaping' in R:
install.packages('textshaping', repos = c('https://cran.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

10.45 score 800 packages 87 scripts 897k downloads 6 exports 8 dependencies

Last updated from:d0d5ab621d. Checks:4 NOTE, 2 OK. Indexed: no.

TargetResultTimeFilesSyslog
linux-devel-arm64NOTE141
linux-devel-x86_64NOTE132
source / vignettesOK234
linux-release-arm64NOTE140
linux-release-x86_64NOTE175
wasm-releaseOK128

Exports:get_font_featureslorem_bidilorem_textplot_shapeshape_texttext_width

Dependencies:base64encclicpp11jsonlitelifecyclerlangstringisystemfonts

textshaping C interface

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Last update: 2025-09-01
Started: 2020-09-17