https://github.com/stetre/moonfreetype

Lua bindings for FreeType
https://github.com/stetre/moonfreetype

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Lua bindings for FreeType

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/stetre/moonfreetype
• Owner: stetre
• License: other
• Created: 2017-01-08T11:38:28.000Z (almost 8 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-04-08T18:34:41.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-02T15:37:52.574Z (5 months ago)
• Language: C
• Size: 146 KB
• Stars: 4
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 2
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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## MoonFreeType: Lua bindings for FreeType

MoonFreeType is a Lua binding library for the 

[FreeType library](https://www.freetype.org/).

It runs on GNU/Linux and on Windows (MSYS2/MinGW) and requires 

[Lua](http://www.lua.org/) (>=5.3) and 

[FreeType](https://www.freetype.org/download.html) (>=2.6.1).

_Authored by:_ _[Stefano Trettel](https://www.linkedin.com/in/stetre)_

[![Lua logo](./doc/powered-by-lua.gif)](http://www.lua.org/)

#### License

MIT/X11 license (same as Lua). See [LICENSE](./LICENSE).

#### Documentation

See the [Reference Manual](https://stetre.github.io/moonfreetype/doc/index.html).

#### Getting and installing

Setup the build environment as described [here](https://github.com/stetre/moonlibs), then:

```sh

$ git clone https://github.com/stetre/moonfreetype

$ cd moonfreetype

moonfreetype$ make

moonfreetype$ make install # or 'sudo make install' (Ubuntu)

```

#### Example

The script below loads a font face from a file and lists the contained glyphs:

```lua

-- MoonFreeType example: listglyphs.lua

ft = require("moonfreetype")

fontfile = arg[1]

if not fontfile then print("Usage: " .. arg[0] .. " ") return end

-- Create a library:

lib = ft.init_freetype()

-- Create a face, loading from fontfile:

face = ft.new_face(lib, fontfile)

-- List all the glyphs (character code - glyph index - glyph name):

charcode, index = face:get_first_char()

while index do

   print(charcode, index, face:get_glyph_name(index))

   charcode, index = face:get_next_char(charcode)

end

lib:done()

```

The script can be executed at the shell prompt with the standard Lua interpreter,

passing it a font file name, e.g.:

```shell

$ lua listglyphs.lua myfavouritefont.ttf

```

Other examples can be found in the **examples/** directory.

#### See also

* [MoonLibs - Graphics and Audio Lua Libraries](https://github.com/stetre/moonlibs).