NAME¶
Font::TTF::GSUB - Module support for the GSUB table in conjunction with TTOpen
DESCRIPTION¶
Handles the GSUB subtables in relation to Ttopen tables. Due to the variety of
different lookup types, the data structures are not all that straightforward,
although I have tried to make life easy for myself when using this!
INSTANCE VARIABLES¶
The structure of a GSUB table is the same as that given in Font::TTF::Ttopen.
Here we give some of the semantics specific to GSUB lookups.
- ACTION_TYPE
- This is a string taking one of 4 values indicating the nature of the
information in the ACTION array of the rule:
- g
- The action contains a string of glyphs to replace the match string by
- l
- The action array contains a list of offsets and lookups to run, in order,
on the matched string
- a
- The action array is an unordered set of optional replacements for the
matched glyph. The application should make the selection somehow.
- o
- The action array is empty (in fact there is no rule array for this type of
rule) and the ADJUST value should be added to the glyph id to find the
replacement glyph id value
- MATCH_TYPE
- This indicates which type of information the various MATCH arrays (MATCH,
PRE, POST) hold in the rule:
- g
- The array holds a string of glyph ids which should match exactly
- c
- The array holds a sequence of class definitions which each glyph should
correspondingly match to
- o
- The array holds offsets to coverage tables
CORRESPONDANCE TO LAYOUT TYPES¶
The following table gives the values for ACTION_TYPE and MATCH_TYPE for each of
the 11 different lookup types found in the GSUB table definition I have:
1.1 1.2 2 3 4 5.1 5.2 5.3 6.1 6.2 6.3
ACTION_TYPE o g g a g l l l l l l
MATCH_TYPE g g c o g c o
Hopefully, the rest of the uses of the variables should make sense from this
table.
METHODS¶
$t->read_sub($fh, $lookup, $index)¶
Asked by the superclass to read in from the given file the indexth subtable from
lookup number lookup. The file is positioned ready for the read.
$t->extension¶
Returns the table type number for the extension table
$t->out_sub($fh, $lookup, $index)¶
Passed the filehandle to output to, suitably positioned, the lookup and subtable
index, this function outputs the subtable to $fh at that point.
BUGS¶
Does not yet support lookup type 8 (Reverse Chaining Contextual Single
Substitution)
AUTHOR¶
Martin Hosken Martin_Hosken@sil.org
LICENSING¶
Copyright (c) 1998-2013, SIL International (
http://www.sil.org)
This module is released under the terms of the Artistic License 2.0. For
details, see the full text of the license in the file LICENSE.