Superscript and Subscript Characters in General Use

[Khaled Hosny]

On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 02:18:01AM +0100, Marcel Schneider wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 17:01:41 +0200, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> > 
> > LibreOffice indeed did not use HarfBuzz on Windows before 5.3, which is 
> > not released yet. 
> 
> Is the integration of HarfBuzz limited to free software? 

HarfBuzz has a fairly liberal license, so in theory it can be used in
anywhere.

> And what might be the reason of the delayed integration of HarfBuzz in the 
> Windows version of LibreOffice?

Nothing specific, LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org before it and most like
StarOffice before them just used what API the platform provides to do
text layout, which is not an uncommon practice, it even seemed to be the
best practice back in time. The reasons it finally switched to HarfBuzz
are outlined in:

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89870

Regards,
Khaled