src/java/org/apache/fop/fonts/Substitutable.java

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/* $Id$ */

package org.apache.fop.fonts;

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/**
 * Optional interface which indicates that glyph substitution is supported and, if supported,
 * can perform substitution.
 * @author Glenn Adams
 */
public interface Substitutable {

    /**
     * Determines if font performs glyph substitution.
     * @return true if performs substitution.
     */
    boolean performsSubstitution();

    /**
     * Perform substitutions on characters to effect glyph substitution. If some substitution is performed, it
     * entails mapping from one or more input characters denoting textual character information to one or more
     * output character codes denoting glyphs in this font, where the output character codes may make use of
     * private character code values that have significance only for this font.
     * @param cs character sequence to map to output font encoding character sequence
     * @param script a script identifier
     * @param language a language identifier
     * @return output sequence (represented as a character sequence, where each character in the returned sequence
     * denotes "font characters", i.e., character codes that map directly (1-1) to their associated glyphs
     */
    CharSequence performSubstitution ( CharSequence cs, String script, String language );

    /**
     * Reorder combining marks in character sequence so that they precede (within the sequence) the base
     * character to which they are applied. N.B. In the case of LTR segments, marks are not reordered by this,
     * method since when the segment is reversed by BIDI processing, marks are automatically reordered to precede
     * their base character.
     * @param cs character sequence within which combining marks to be reordered
     * @param gpa associated glyph position adjustments (also reordered)
     * @param script a script identifier
     * @param language a language identifier
     * @return output sequence containing reordered "font characters"
     */
    CharSequence reorderCombiningMarks ( CharSequence cs, int[][] gpa, String script, String language );

}