[HarfBuzz] hb-shape vs hb-view: ligatures

[James Cloos]

>>>>> "LS" == Lars Schwarz <lars.schwarz at gmail.com> writes:

LS> Ok, that did the trick, nevertheless I'm still wondering what's the
LS> default behaviour for this (when omitting --features)? Seems like
LS> defaulting to something?

The font's tables specify default behaviour for things like that.

And hb applies a set of features by default.

OTOH, the fact that, even without a zero-width non-joiner between
Sauerstoff and flasche, it doesn't create a inter-compund lig is just
co-incidence.  Were one to use a font with an fff lig one probably would
get fff l instead of ff fl.  Likewise, with most fonts, if the first
sub-word ended in a single f.

-JimC
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