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Summary
Add an opt-in, standalone native C ABI for consuming DigitalKhatt runtime fonts without linking Qt, MetaPost, the authoring application, or platform UI code.
The ABI-v1 kernel:
All requests and outputs are size-versioned. Glyphs are read through accessors rather than a borrowed fixed-stride array, allowing records to grow without changing the ABI contract.
Parent integration is disabled by default through
DIGITALKHATT_BUILD_NATIVE_ENGINE.Font contract
The runtime admits only the deliberately narrow native profile:
CFF2,GSUB,GPOS,GDEF,JTST,fvar, andHVAR;LTATat index 0 andRTATat index 1;Validation
Against the corrected deterministic runtime font produced by #7:
Deliberate non-goals
The line operation is documented as a low-level JTST primitive; it is not presented as the canonical Madinah page-layout contract.
Dependency
This runtime consumes the LTAT/RTAT font profile produced by #7. Keeping the producer and consumer changes separate makes both reviews smaller and keeps the C ABI out of compiler internals.