Font Engine refactor and features #483
Description
Creating a collection of tickets / changes / features to refactor the Font Engines.
Note might not cover all requested features, however this ticket is raised as a tracker for "what needs to be done" for Text at this stage.
Currently working on:
- Reduction of variable assignments (excessive const usage) to lower GC pressure
- Removal of intermediate
TrStateduplication - Single SDF Buffer handling to reduce SDF text rendering buffer refactor #466
- Single Canvas Text generation function and node to texture assignment for Canvas Text. Goal would be get closer to L2 Canvas Text performance
- Text Baseline Implement 'textBaseline' SDF property #134 and Text Rendering - Oversized Canvases - Baseline and Vertical Positioning #382
- SDF Text layout refactor: SDF Text Layout Refactor #223
- RTL Text support: 🌍 Add RTL Text Support for Canvas and SDF Font Renderers (Arabic, Hebrew, etc.) #475
Issues / open PRs:
- SDF Font Engine buffer refactor: SDF text rendering buffer refactor #466
- Wrong wrapping: Wrong wrapping with contain width and text too long #268
- Wrap word PR: Implement wrapWord parameter (#268) #345
- Last trailing space Last trailing space seems to be trimmed from a text string #478
- Text node width incorrect Width of text node with word wrapping not correct when text is smaller than word wrapping width #455 (might be linked to Last trailing space seems to be trimmed from a text string #478)
Features:
- Rich text support Rich text support #586
- Global font scaling: Global Font Scaling #161
- Dropshadow on Text: Drop shadows #23
old ticket references (superseded):
- [ ] Underlike / strikethrough support: #464
- [ ] Span support: #269
- [ ] Multi page / scrolling Canvas text: #321
Closing #322 as a result of upcoming changes to the Text Renderer, mainly: