Re: Ligature support

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> writes:

> Looks like they don’t. So, the fonts have a glyph for the ligature
> code point, but it’s opt-in.

Do you happen to know what the opt-in mechanism in HarfBuzz is?

> I can see how people could want to only use a subset of ligatures
> supported by a font. Fira Code has a ton of ligatures for
> multi-character operators in various programming languages, but one
> might prefer to enable ligatures only for the operators that actually
> exist in the language one is working with. Like, in HTML, --> is a
> closing comment delimiter, but in C “while (n --> 0)” only works
> because it’s interpreted as “decrement n and check if its old value
> was greater than zero”.

Good point.

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