glossary

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CFont:   A font component. This is a rendering-specific entity
         which is paired with a glyph index to uniquely indentify
         a glyph. Each abstract Font maps to one or more CFonts;
         the method for obtaining CFonts from Fonts is also
         rendering system specific.

Cluster: A cluster is a small portion of text that is rendered
         as typographically intertwined glyphs.

         A number of properties are associated with clusters
         and cluster boundaries.

         1) Clusters are the smallest unit of text that is guaranteed to
         progress in reading order. Within a cluster, reordering
         of glyphs may occur.

         2) At the boundaries of clusters, character boundaries
         and glyph boundaries are guaranteed to coincide.

	 3) There will be a cursor position between every two clusters.
         There may not be a cursor position at some positions
         inside a cluster.

	 4) The cluster boundary is the only place where information
         about the correspondence between character position
         and screen position is conveyed from the shape-engine
         to the layers above. 

Engine:  A script-specific object that is responsible for 
         converting Unicode text into glyphs or resolving
         the properties of the text. Engines may be 
	 rendering-system specific or independent of rendering
	 system.

Font:    An abstract font. The method in which a font is
         created is dependent on the rendering system.

Item:    An item is a portion of text in a single script, handled
         by a single shaping engine, and with a single directional
         level. g_script_itemize() returns a list of items.

Module:  A dynamically loaded shared object containing one
         or more Engines.

Range:   A subportion of an item. You pass a range into
         g_script_shape() by passing in the analysis structure
         for the item and some subportion of the text.