Re: ligature issue 2656 (was Re: Ghostscript 9.15)

[David Kastrup]

Urs Liska <address@hidden> writes:

> The issues discussed in this thread have quite diversified:
>
> - Updating GUB to a newer Ghostscript
> - Ligatures not being produced on all platforms
> - Updating Pango which solved this
> - Pango picking system fonts, resulting in unpredictable output
> - thinking about choosing default fonts for sans-serif and monospace
>
> The latter two are quite anrelated to the first three, and Masamichi
> seems to have completed research and work on the first three items.
>
> So while this doesn't do _anything_ with regard to the latter two
> issues it s a welcome improvement.

Quite definitely so.  It was a good opportunity to get a bit more light
on that issue report that did not previously have as clear a picture
about what might have been involved and what might remain to be done.

-- 
David Kastrup