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A Rust library for low-level text layout.

Is linebender/skribo beginner-friendly?

We have not seen enough recent pull requests from outside contributors to linebender/skribo to say how often they are merged. No beginner-friendly issue is open right now; the list below has the other issues we hold for it.

Stars
336
Forks
35
Open beginner issues
0
Indexed issues
10
Dominant language
Rust
License
Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push
Apr 15, 2021
Latest indexed
Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide
No contributing guide
Code of conduct
No code of conduct
Beginner labels
No beginner labels indexed
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

How to contribute to linebender/skribo

  1. There is no contributing guide, so start from the README and a few recently merged pull requests to see how changes are proposed.
  2. Your contributions will be published under the project's Apache-2.0 license.
  3. Follow the repository to hear when a new beginner-friendly issue opens, or look through the other issues below.

Issues somebody may already be working on are listed last. List everything by date

  • `make_unicode_funcs` cause memory leak
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    linebender/skribo#39 ·

  • High level goal: render to image
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    linebender/skribo#34 · 6 comments · 1 reaction ·

  • How to use Skribo for text layout
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

    linebender/skribo#26 · 4 comments ·

  • Add CI (Travis/AppVeyor/GitHub/GitLab/etc)
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    linebender/skribo#23 ·

  • Interaction with CSS font matching algorithm
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    linebender/skribo#22 · 2 comments ·

  • Why provide Unicode functions in Rust rather than use Harfbuzz’s default?
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    linebender/skribo#20 · 1 comment ·

  • layout_run function does not work correctly on ubuntu 18.04
    Open

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    linebender/skribo#18 · 1 comment · 2 reactions ·

  • Choice of font fallback API on macOS
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    linebender/skribo#14 · 1 comment ·

  • Open design decisions
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

    linebender/skribo#6 · 1 comment ·

  • Can shaping be reused for different line breaks?
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    linebender/skribo#4 · 10 comments ·

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