From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: otf ligature rendering support? Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 18:07:53 +0200 Message-ID: <83ppax9ndy.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83tx099ofu.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1420214934 7577 80.91.229.3 (2 Jan 2015 16:08:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2015 16:08:54 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 02 17:08:47 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Y74mM-00089r-FL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Jan 2015 17:08:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51840 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y74mL-0000F1-OU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Jan 2015 11:08:45 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41452) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y74lb-0008PY-LE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Jan 2015 11:08:00 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y74lY-0006Oy-Fr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Jan 2015 11:07:59 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout27.012.net.il ([80.179.55.183]:45616) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y74lY-0006NG-8f for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Jan 2015 11:07:56 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout27.012.net.il by mtaout27.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NHK00N003QNFE00@mtaout27.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Jan 2015 18:00:06 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout27.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NHK00NJH4G6OV20@mtaout27.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Jan 2015 18:00:06 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.183 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:101835 Archived-At: > From: Yuri D'Elia > Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 17:00:31 +0100 > > > I think you need to define rules for composing characters into > > ligatures, in order to have what you want. > > This is different than composition of unicode ligatures. > OTF ligatures are an inherent property of the font along with kerning > tables. I'm probably missing something, and I'm certainly not an expert on OTF fonts, in Emacs or elsewhere. But if what you want is display several characters as a single glyph, the way to do that in Emacs is define composition rules.