[INDOLOGY] HarfBuzz in LibreOffice

[Dominik Wujastyk]

In the pre-release version of LibreOffice 5.3, we see HarfBuzz arriving as
the standard library for the rendering of complex texts (like Devanagari).
Good news.

   - https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/5.3#Text_Layout_Engine

​Thanks to Akash Jain and Khaled Hosny (who is also deeply involved in
supporting XeTeX)​.


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Professor Dominik Wujastyk <http://ualberta.academia.edu/DominikWujastyk>
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Singhmar Chair in Classical Indian Society and Polity
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Department of History and Classics <http://historyandclassics.ualberta.ca/>
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University of Alberta, Canada
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South Asia at the U of A:

​sas.ualberta.ca​
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