Replacement for `FaceTables::from_table_provider`

[Ravi S. Rāmphal]

Last year, I was using v0.12.3 which provided the FaceTables::from_table_provider function. When I tried to upgrade to the latest v0.15.0, I found that function was no longer there. Has it been completely removed, or has it been moved/renamed? Would someone be able to suggest an alternative approach?

Thank you!

[Yevhenii Reizner]

You should use RawFaceTables now.

[Ravi S. Rāmphal]

Thank you for pointing me in the right direction!

This might be an ignorant question, but currently I'm using font-kit to get a list of font handles, load them, and extract their head, hhea, maxp, and cmap tables. Once I have those, I am creating a Face from RawFaceTables, and then I call face.tables().cmap to get to the subtables. Once I have the subtables, I iterate over them to get codepoints. Is there a quicker way to get the codepoints? Once I have the cmap table from font-kit, can I get the codepoints directly without going through a Face; or are the other head, hhea, and maxp tables necessary to correctly parse a cmap table?

[Yevhenii Reizner]

Yes, you can use https://docs.rs/ttf-parser/latest/ttf_parser/cmap/struct.Table.html#method.parse

[Ravi S. Rāmphal]

Of course — thank you for your help!