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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 18 May 2020 23:59:11 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Alan Third <address@hidden>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> 
> In case anyone's interested, I've attached a screenshot of Apple's
> Pages.app displaying the word Zapfino with the cursor after the "a".

I don't see anything on or after "a", I see a thin vertical line on
the "Z".  is that what is actually displayed?  If so, how do people
know the cursor is after "a"??

> Clearly not ideal. OTOH, if LibreOffice, Firefox, and even Apple's
> products do this, perhaps it's just the way people will expect it to
> be done.

If someone wants to work on such a feature, I'm sure it will be
welcome by at least some of the users.

Thanks.