Originally I was using DirectWrite, but I want to get Linux/OpenGL up and going.
I have some basic code via FreeType, but seeing how much work getting formatted text (or kerning/gpos, other , various Unicode features, languages/scripts, etc.) to work was hoping for something existing, either as a library or at least could be used as an example.
I looked at Dear ImGui, SFML and SDL, but looks like that have about what I already have in technical capabilities, laying out a left to right sequence of glyphs with a single style and maybe inserting line breaks to …