Re: Ligatures (was: Unify the Platforms: Cairo+FreeType+Harfbuzz Everywhere (except TTY))

[tomas]

On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 07:08:45PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sun, 17 May 2020 22:17:17 +0300
> > From: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
> > Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> > 
> > > LibreOffice highlights sub-glyphs of ligatures correctly. I enter
> > > "official", and it renders <o> <ffi> <c> <i> <a> <l>. I move the
> > > cursor right twice, and it highlights precisely what it should, the
> > > middle "f" of the ligature glyph.

[...]

> On second thought, I think I misunderstood you.  If the font that is
> used shows "ffi" as a _single_ glyph ffi, and LibreOffice indeed
> highlights parts of this glyph, then I'd like to know how it does
> that [...]

Didn't work for me [1]. It treated the whole ligature as one "character".

Cheers

[1] LibreOffice 6.1.5.2 10(Build:2), Debian GNU/Linux (buster).
-- tomás

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