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Re: How is a composition being done?
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Kenichi Handa |
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Re: How is a composition being done? |
Date: |
Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:22:51 +0900 |
In article <address@hidden>, James Cloos <address@hidden> writes:
> f-ligs are the lugatures which start with a miniscule f. The most
> common ones are fi, fl, ff, ffi, ffl; some fonts have fj; some even
> have ligatures like fb, fk or ft which are only found at syllable
> boundries.
Ah, I see.
>>> I'd like to see emacs use f-ligs when in variable pitch mode.
>>> My guess is that a function which applies the GSUB liga feature would be
>>> the right solution, since monowidth fonts usualy avoid that.
KH> Yes, I think so. But, for that, we must at first implement
KH> a function to apply specific OpenType features.
> Yes, that would be ideal.
> Perhaps the faces could specify which features should be applied, just
> like they currently specify styles. The default set could be those
> which are generally applied by opentype-aware programs for the given
> scripts.
> I would also be useful to have a way to add features for a given span
> of text. Perahps overlays could be used (abused?) for that?
If we make face to specify such features, we can naturally
use text property and/or overlay because both of them can
have `face' property.
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Kenichi Handa
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