In CoreText, when thickening (font smoothing) is enabled or Ghostty is
synthesizing a bold face, the glyph bounding box is padded to make sure
the thicker glyph can fit. Currently, this happens before applying
constraints (scaling and alignment), which makes the size and position
of constrained glyphs dependent on font size, font thickening strength,
and display DPI.
With this PR, constraints are applied before any other adjustments, and
padding is applied directly to the rasterization canvas without
modifying any metrics.
For consistency, I also moved constraint application above emboldening
in the FreeType code, although under that API, the two operations are
orthogonal as far as I can tell.
Secondly, this PR moves glyph centering above bitmap quantization, as
centering is generally fractional and will therefore undo the quantizing
if done after.
Supersedes #8552.
In Freetype, measure rect after emboldening, so constraints apply to the
true glyph size like in CoreText.
In CoreText, don't let font smoothing affect the rect (only the canvas).
This adds a new script we can manually run that downloads all the files
that need to be uploaded to the mirror and updates our build.zig.zon.
The upload still happens manually [by me] but this simplifies the task
greatly.
This adds a new script we can manually run that downloads all the files
that need to be uploaded to the mirror and updates our build.zig.zon.
The upload still happens manually [by me] but this simplifies the task
greatly.
Replaces #8372
Before merge I'm going to squash this and give @pluiedev coauthor, since
I took a lot of her work. I just have to go through this myself to make
sure I learn all the changes in Zig 0.15, but as I got things, I copy
and pasted her work in. My work is probably less thorough and there are
places we can convert deprecated things, probably, but this results in
green CI.
## Benchmarks
It looks like there are some speed regressions in isolated places. I'm
not sure if this is noise or not, I'm going to keep running some tests.
If someone can check macOS that'd be helpful (my vtebench is down on
macOS atm), cc @qwerasd205 if interested.
On an x86_64 system:
Fixes#8991
Uses OSC 133 esc sequences to keep track of how long commands take to
execute. If the user chooses, commands that take longer than a user
specified limit will trigger a notification. The user can choose between
a bell notification or a desktop notification.
Signal handlers are connected to surface objects in two spots - when a
tab is added to a page and when the split tree changes. This resulted in
duplicate signal handlers being added for each surface. This was most
noticeable when copying the selection to the clipboard - you would see
two "Copied to clipboard" toasts. Ensure that there is only one signal
handler by removing any old ones before adding the new ones.
You can pretty simply reproduce a crash on `main` in `Debug` mode by
running `printf "مرحبًا \n"` with your primary font set to one that
supports Arabic such as Cascadia Code/Mono or Kawkab Mono, which will
cause CoreText to output the shaped glyphs non-monotonically which hits
the assert we have in the renderer.
In `ReleaseFast` this assert is skipped and because we already moved
ahead to the space glyph (which belongs at the end but is emitted first)
all of the glyphs up to that point are lost. I believe this is probably
the cause of #8280, I tested and this change seems to fix it at least.
Included in this PR is a little optimization: we were allocating buffers
to copy glyphs etc. from runs to every time, even though CoreText
provides `CTRunGet*Ptr` functions which get *pointers* to the internal
storage of these values- these aren't guaranteed to return a usable
pointer but in that case we can always fall back to allocating again.
Also avoided allocation while processing glyphs by ensuring capacity
beforehand immediately after creating the `CTLine`.
The performance impact of this PR is negligible on my machine and
actually seems to be positive, probably due to avoiding allocations if I
had to guess.
The solution we had before worked in most cases but there were some
which caused problems still. This is what HarfBuzz's CoreText shaper
backend does, it uses a CTTypesetter with the forced embedding level
attribute. This fixes the failure case I found that was causing non-
monotonic outputs which can have all sorts of unexpected results, and
causes a crash in Debug modes because we assert the monotonicity while
rendering.
Reduce potential allocation while processing glyphs by ensuring capacity
in the buffer ahead of time and also using CTRunGet*Ptr functions first
and only allocating for those if that didn't work (it should almost
always work in practice.)
We never used it because our minidump files on Linux didn't contain
meaningful information. With Zig's Writergate, let's drop this and
rewrite it later, we can always resurrect it from the git history.
Rejoice @pluiedev
We never used it because our minidump files on Linux didn't contain
meaningful information. With Zig's Writergate, let's drop this and
rewrite it later, we can always resurrect it from the git history.
Fixes#8991
Uses OSC 133 esc sequences to keep track of how long commands take to
execute. If the user chooses, commands that take longer than a user
specified limit will trigger a notification. The user can choose between
a bell notification or a desktop notification.
#8829 fixed the interaction of Powerline glyphs with other symbols, but
regressed in the handling of the Powerline glyphs themselves by letting
them get caught in an early exit that imposes a constraint width of 1.
This PR fixes the regression and adds corresponding tests. Tried to be
somewhat principled about why the special treatment is warranted, hence
the new helper function `isGraphicsElement`.
**Before**
<img width="270" height="44" alt="Screenshot 2025-10-02 at 00 16 54"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9e975434-114c-44d5-a4ed-ac6a954b9d00"
/>
**After**
<img width="270" height="44" alt="Screenshot 2025-10-02 at 00 16 11"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/20545e74-c9f9-4a6b-9bf0-a7cf1d38c3a0"
/>
Zig 0.15 removed the ability to compress from the stdlib, which makes
porting our framegen tool to Zig 0.15+ more work than it's worth. We
already depend on and have the ability to build zlib, and Zig is a full
blown C compiler, so let's just use C.
The framegen C program doesn't free any memory, because it is meant to
exit quickly. It otherwise behaves pretty much the same as the old Zig
codebase.
The build scripts were modified to build the C program and run it, but
also to include the framedata in the generated source tarball so that
downstream packagers don't have to do this (although they'll have all
the deps anyways).
**AI disclosure:** The Zig to C conversion was done by Amp. I know C and
reviewed the code. The build system improvements are partially done by
Amp as well but I finished it all out. I've reviewed everything. Full
thread:
https://ampcode.com/threads/T-4e0a80af-3d2a-48d6-bf59-3e2f05eb7673
