Re: Supporting stylistic sets

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: समीर सिंह Sameer Singh
>  <lumarzeli30@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2022 18:24:48 +0530
> 
> I was trying to add stylistic sets in Emacs.

Thanks.  We have a TODO item for that, please see it.

> I was able to successfully able to switch to a different set of a Bengali 
> font by hardcoding it  to the hbfont.c
> file, but that is obviously not a solution.
> 
> Should I try adding a new font property name "stylistic-set" which would 
> accept a list of values for a font. If so
> could I get some pointers on how to add a new font property to emacs.

How did you envision this font property to be used in Emacs?

The etc/TODO item for that suggests to implement this as a text
property instead.  That is, of course, not carved in stone, but I
think we should in any case decide on how this will be used from Lisp
before we talk about how to expose it to Lisp.