A little info about ligatures and e.g. Calibri

Khaled Hosny khaledhosny at eglug.org
Mon Feb 18 09:21:14 PST 2013


On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 10:36:38AM +0000, Caolán McNamara wrote:
> On Sun, 2013-02-03 at 18:26 +0200, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> > GTK have been enabling ligatures and other default OpenType features
> > since ages (since before I started using computers :p), so probably the
> > situation is not that bad.
> 
> oh, I forgot, we also don't have proper cursor positions for ligatures
> either!, that's another epic lack.

Cursor positioning inside ligatures seems to work for Arabic when using
OpenType fonts, but not with Latin ligature when using Graphite fonts
(couldn't find Arabic Graphite fonts with ligatures), so may be it is an
issue with Graphite integration.

Regards,
Khaled


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