On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 12:26 PM Ulrike Fischer <news3@nililand.de> wrote:
Am Fri, 2 Nov 2018 11:56:52 +0100 schrieb luigi scarso:

> I am planning to play with a harfbuzz plugin to  check them (sort of tool)

You could try https://github.com/khaledhosny/luahbtex. Khaled is
trying to marry luatex + harfbuzz there

sure, it's hardcoded , the final binary is quite heavy ...  
Anyway, I am talking of dll/so  plugin and tool,  
it's  more  on the track of 
https://www.guitex.org/home/images/ArsTeXnica/AT023/luaffi-article.pdf
It's always nice and useful to have an "orthogonal way " to do things, more chances to fix bugs
and customizations. And at some point,  learn by doing (for me) is the only way to learn.


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luigi