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Re: Ligatures (was: Unify the Platforms: Cairo+FreeType+Harfbuzz Everywh
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Clément Pit-Claudel |
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Re: Ligatures (was: Unify the Platforms: Cairo+FreeType+Harfbuzz Everywhere (except TTY)) |
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Mon, 18 May 2020 13:31:30 -0400 |
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On 18/05/2020 12.08, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 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, and how far does this capability extend. I mean, what does it
> do with ligatures like ae, displayed as æ -- does it highlight the
> common vertical stroke for both parts? And what about "st", displayed
> as st -- this has a curved "hand" connecting s and t -- to which of the
> 2 does it belong for the purposes of highlighting? There's also "hv"
> displayed as ƕ, let alone "fs" displayed as ẞ and "fz" displayed as
> ß.
I've attached a screenshot with a few examples, though I couldn't find a font
that displays ae as æ.
Firefox does the same as LibreOffice (try it here, for example:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/font-variant-ligatures).
Since Firefox uses Harbuzz, I think there's a good chance we can support that
feature too :)
ligatures.png
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- Re: Ligatures, (continued)
- Re: Ligatures, Clément Pit-Claudel, 2020/05/19
- Re: Ligatures, Clément Pit-Claudel, 2020/05/18
- Re: Ligatures, Pip Cet, 2020/05/19
- Re: Ligatures, Clément Pit-Claudel, 2020/05/19
- Re: Ligatures, Pip Cet, 2020/05/19
- Re: Ligatures, tomas, 2020/05/18
- Re: Ligatures, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/05/18
- Re: Ligatures, tomas, 2020/05/18
- Re: Ligatures, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/05/18
- Re: Ligatures, Stefan Monnier, 2020/05/18
- Re: Ligatures (was: Unify the Platforms: Cairo+FreeType+Harfbuzz Everywhere (except TTY)),
Clément Pit-Claudel <=
- Re: Ligatures (was: Unify the Platforms: Cairo+FreeType+Harfbuzz Everywhere (except TTY)), Eli Zaretskii, 2020/05/18
- Re: Ligatures (was: Unify the Platforms: Cairo+FreeType+Harfbuzz Everywhere (except TTY)), Clément Pit-Claudel, 2020/05/18
- Re: Ligatures (was: Unify the Platforms: Cairo+FreeType+Harfbuzz Everywhere (except TTY)), Eli Zaretskii, 2020/05/18
- Re: Ligatures (was: Unify the Platforms: Cairo+FreeType+Harfbuzz Everywhere (except TTY)), tomas, 2020/05/18
- Re: Ligatures, Stefan Monnier, 2020/05/18
- Re: Ligatures (was: Unify the Platforms: Cairo+FreeType+Harfbuzz Everywhere (except TTY)), Alan Third, 2020/05/18
- Re: Ligatures (was: Unify the Platforms: Cairo+FreeType+Harfbuzz Everywhere (except TTY)), Eli Zaretskii, 2020/05/19
- Re: Ligatures (was: Unify the Platforms: Cairo+FreeType+Harfbuzz Everywhere (except TTY)), Clément Pit-Claudel, 2020/05/19
- Re: Ligatures (was: Unify the Platforms: Cairo+FreeType+Harfbuzz Everywhere (except TTY)), Pip Cet, 2020/05/19
- Re: Ligatures (was: Unify the Platforms: Cairo+FreeType+Harfbuzz Everywhere (except TTY)), Clément Pit-Claudel, 2020/05/19