Adding Graphite to your application
Graphite system overview
The Graphite package consists of:
- Graphite Description Language (GDL) - a rule-based programming language that is used to describe the behavior of a writing system
- the Graphite compiler - used to compile the GDL program along with a font to generate the Graphite-enabled version of the font
- the Graphite engine - uses the Graphite font to assist a text-processing application in performing text layout
Graphite2
The Graphite2 engine represents a rework of the original engine developed for the Graphite package. Implementation began in 2010. It is the package used by LibreOffice 3.4 and Firefox 11, and can be integrated into applications on the Android versions 2.2 - 2.3.4.
The main project site is: 
http://projects.palaso.org/projects/graphitedev
A manual for integrating Graphite2 into an application:
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Graphite2 Manual Martin Hosken, 2012-02-22 Download "Graphite2_manual.pdf", Acrobat PDF document, 215KB [605 downloads] |
SilGraphite
The original Graphite engine, packaged under the name SilGraphite, is used by OpenOffice, Fieldworks, and WorldPad.
The source code can be downloaded from: SilGraphite SourceForge project
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SilGraphite API Documentation Sharon Correll, 2012-02-20 Download "GraphiteAPI.zip", ZIP archive, 601KB [178 downloads] |
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Graphite Application Programmer's Guide Sharon Correll, 2012-02-20 Download "GrAppProgGuide.pdf", Acrobat PDF document, 560KB [243 downloads] |
(The documents above describe version 2 of the Graphite API; the original API is obsolete.)
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