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authorHunter Sezen <ovariegata@yahoo.com>2017-01-23 14:13:12 +0000
committerDavid Spencer <idlemoor@slackbuilds.org>2017-01-24 00:21:50 +0000
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-Graphite2 is a rendering engine for graphite fonts. These are TrueType
-fonts with additional tables containing smart rendering information and
-were originally developed to support complex non-Roman writing systems.
-They may contain rules for e.g. ligatures, glyph substitution, kerning,
-justification - this can make them useful even on text written in Roman
-writing systems such as English. Note that firefox provides an internal
-copy of the graphite engine and cannot use a system version, but it too
-should benefit from the availability of graphite fonts.
+Graphite is a system that can be used to create "smart fonts" capable
+of displaying writing systems with various complex behaviors. A smart
+font contains not only letter shapes but also additional instructions
+indicating how to combine and position the letters in complex ways.
+
+Graphite was primarily developed to provide the flexibility needed for
+minority languages which often need to be written according to slightly
+different rules than well-known languages that use the same script.