Re: Ligature support

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,  Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2021 18:16:24 +0100
> 
> Do other programs make these into ligatures when you use these fonts?  I
> tried:
> 
> hb-view /usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSansMono.ttf "afib"  -o 
> /tmp/deja.png
> 
> And as expected, no ligaturing here.  The non-mono font does the
> ligature, though:

That has nothing to do with fonts being monospaced, all it tells you
is that DejaVuSansMono doesn't support ligatures.  But other
monospaced fonts do.