From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Supporting stylistic sets Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2022 17:18:35 +0300 Message-ID: <837d1sonyc.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83wn9up0es.fsf@gnu.org> <83illeou0j.fsf@gnu.org> <83r101ntwi.fsf@gnu.org> <83illdnpn3.fsf@gnu.org> <83h70xnp43.fsf@gnu.org> <83bkr5ne65.fsf@gnu.org> <83a66pnczg.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="34217"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?utf-8?B?4KS44KSu4KWA4KSwIOCkuOCkv+CkguCkuSBTYW1lZXIgU2luZ2g=?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 24 16:21:43 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oc62J-0008lj-B1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 24 Sep 2022 16:21:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53358 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oc62I-0007sk-7q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 24 Sep 2022 10:21:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:57924) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oc5zV-0005JC-JZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Sep 2022 10:18:49 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:46320) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oc5zV-0000bX-BL; Sat, 24 Sep 2022 10:18:49 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=MIME-version:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: Date; bh=7v033mFQuXfQIao+ZtNJNontrEEarPL3skflxEEp5+k=; b=NKn8hryGOl/5uUxjpXP7 MLOK52xPYaAsi2ZESU9IhC3XcAkeq08Wg/iiN9KzpKk0wf90/R7J4jC5GR+P5J5hGSHPiPBF0aptl t2Yhm2W+ploDgHmXF9wCMryX591w/WfkcBAwpNAQu4ZGgArGaTzBBDEKLOMVIqxuYHGbkv6E93BVS XlI5q/T8qTPGRuwXw8BbM6mqWqd3lp24+ln2VvjVLRNfIlpWbWRvux245l57e4FqrMqzWQM/jyPm0 ESPne5jHOrBy230hdfvurYxJ0ArDVLMvFmZSrJOq2ZZh5PIVt98Ehwmpqg3YjqLYp16Y2CNWaPQyK 9aGj+dvJMD2FcA==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=4798 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oc5zU-0005tD-Pa; Sat, 24 Sep 2022 10:18:49 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from =?utf-8?B?4KS44KSu4KWA4KSwIOCkuOCkv+CkguCkuQ==?= Sameer Singh on Sat, 24 Sep 2022 18:40:55 +0530) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:296155 Archived-At: > From: समीर सिंह Sameer Singh > Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2022 18:40:55 +0530 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > You are suggesting that we let the font and the shaping engine decide > which alternative to use? That sounds un-Emacsy to me. For the use > case where only specific characters should be affected, I think we > should have a facility whereby users could specify, for each character > that has alternatives, which one to use. > > No, I am not suggesting that every variation has its own tag and the user can choose which tag they would > like or not. > For example look at the FiraCode variations attached So what do I do if I want variant 4 for 'i' and variant 2 for 'l'?