Hi Arvind, [ Please don't drop the list from CC, you may get valuable input from others. ] On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 12:22:18PM -0600, Arvind Kumar <arvind.kumar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > What I'm trying is this: I have created a fontfile with additional > characters (non-standard codes - I use the private user's space of Unicode) > that should get represented in the document when a certain combination of > keys is pressed. This is needed for some Indian languages and the absence > of such a technique is why Indian language computers do not exist. > > I have written a few applications using Gtk that achieve the above by > trapping the keypress and keyrelease events. I want to now do this in > LibreOffice so I can use it for my own document creation and printing. My > fontfile shows up in the drop down menu, but I need it to use my glyph in > response to the keycodes sent by a non-standard keyboard (I have a 121 key > keyboard in which I can assign custom HID codes). > > If you can tell me which files I need to specifically edit to achieve this, > that would be perfect! Perhaps what you want is to tweak/extend the code that maps an OUString to a list of glyphs, the vcl text layout. GenericSalLayout::LayoutText() at vcl/source/gdi/CommonSalLayout.cxx:286 does that using harfbuzz, I believe standard gtk apps use that at the end as well. Regards, Miklos
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