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authorEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2021-06-02 17:50:57 +0300
committerEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2021-06-02 17:50:57 +0300
commitf7d4bbceee8c3c29e2ef0bfacf9ff24fb020d3ee (patch)
treeaffbac1d8f4e6152a36ff24bc63f23ae1a749d4d /src/composite.h
parentbef00aa1372dbd8a72ac84be0ee397cca46a1250 (diff)
downloademacs-f7d4bbceee8c3c29e2ef0bfacf9ff24fb020d3ee.tar.gz
; * src/composite.h: Improve comments for LGSTRING and LGLYPH.
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diff --git a/src/composite.h b/src/composite.h
index 1b346b4cdfe..ebbb55f49c0 100644
--- a/src/composite.h
+++ b/src/composite.h
@@ -243,6 +243,11 @@ composition_valid_p (ptrdiff_t start, ptrdiff_t end, Lisp_Object prop)
/* Macros for lispy glyph-string. This is completely different from
struct glyph_string. */
+/* LGSTRING is a string of font glyphs, LGLYPHs. It is represented as
+ a Lisp vector, with components shown below. Once LGSTRING was
+ processed by a shaping engine, it holds font glyphs for one or more
+ grapheme clusters. */
+
#define LGSTRING_HEADER(lgs) AREF (lgs, 0)
#define LGSTRING_SET_HEADER(lgs, header) ASET (lgs, 0, header)
@@ -256,6 +261,10 @@ composition_valid_p (ptrdiff_t start, ptrdiff_t end, Lisp_Object prop)
#define LGSTRING_ID(lgs) AREF (lgs, 1)
#define LGSTRING_SET_ID(lgs, id) ASET (lgs, 1, id)
+/* LGSTRING_GLYPH_LEN is the maximum number of LGLYPHs that the
+ LGSTRING can hold. This is NOT the actual number of valid LGLYPHs;
+ to find the latter, walk the glyphs returned by LGSTRING_GLYPH
+ until the first one that is nil. */
#define LGSTRING_GLYPH_LEN(lgs) (ASIZE ((lgs)) - 2)
#define LGSTRING_GLYPH(lgs, idx) AREF ((lgs), (idx) + 2)
#define LGSTRING_SET_GLYPH(lgs, idx, val) ASET ((lgs), (idx) + 2, (val))
@@ -275,6 +284,14 @@ enum lglyph_indices
LGLYPH_SIZE
};
+/* Each LGLYPH is a single font glyph, whose font code is in
+ LGLYPH_CODE.
+ LGLYPH_FROM and LGLYPH_TO are indices into LGSTRING; all the
+ LGLYPHs that share the same values of LGLYPH_FROM and LGLYPH_TO
+ belong to the same grapheme cluster.
+ LGLYPH_CHAR is one of the characters, usually the first one, that
+ contributed to the glyph (since there isn't a 1:1 correspondence
+ between composed characters and the font glyphs). */
#define LGLYPH_NEW() make_nil_vector (LGLYPH_SIZE)
#define LGLYPH_FROM(g) XFIXNUM (AREF ((g), LGLYPH_IX_FROM))
#define LGLYPH_TO(g) XFIXNUM (AREF ((g), LGLYPH_IX_TO))