mrezai/godot_tl

BiDi, shaping and basic text layout for Godot Engine

libgdtl

BiDi, shaping and basic text layout for Godot Engine.

Dependencies

• Godot 3.1+
• C++14 compiler
• Meson build system (for gdnative module build only)
• SCons build system

Compiling (as builtin module)

Build options

Name	Description	Default value
builtin_runtime	Use the built-in libraries	true
use_graphite2	Enable SIL Graphite 2 complementary shaper	true

Building libdgtl module

Clone this repository (without --recursive flag) into Godot's modules subfolder as godot_tl. Rebuild Godot engine as ususal.

Compiling (as gdnative module)

Build options

Name	Description	Default value
godot-cpp-lib-name	godot-cpp static library name (without .a or .lib extension)	libgodot-cpp
static-runtime	Link libraries statically for better portability	false
builtin-runtime	Use the built-in libraries	false
use-graphite2	Enable SIL Graphite 2 complementary shaper	true

Building godot-cpp static library

See https://github.com/GodotNativeTools/godot-cpp/blob/master/README.md#compiling-the-cpp-bindings-library

Building libdgtl module

You can compile this module by executing:

meson {Targer-Folder} -Dgodot-cpp-lib-name={Godot-CPP-Name} --buildtype=release
ninja -C {Targer-Folder}

Screenshots

License

• The source code of the libgdtl module is released under unlicense. For more information, see http://unlicense.org/ or the accompanying UNLICENSE file.

• Godot and GodotNativeTools are licensed under MIT license. For more information, see https://github.com/godotengine/godot/blob/master/LICENSE.txt.

• HarfBuzz is licensed under MIT-like License. For more information, see https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/blob/master/COPYING

• ICU4C is licensed under Unicode, Inc. License. For more information, see http://www.unicode.org/copyright.html#License

• FreeType is licensed under FreeType License (BSD-like) or GNU General Public License (GPL), version 2. For more information, see https://www.freetype.org/license.html

• SIL Graphite engine is licensed under GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), version 2.1+ or GNU General Public License (GPL), version 2 or Mozilla Public License. For more information, see https://github.com/silnrsi/graphite/blob/master/COPYING

Demo data

Montserrat, Awami Nastaliq, Comic Neue and Noto fonts are published under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1 Material Design icons by Google are published under the Apache License Version 2.0

Noto Color Emoji font is cut down to single glyph (U+1F604) using glyphhanger.