From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Ligatures (was: Unify the Platforms: Cairo+FreeType+Harfbuzz Everywhere (except TTY)) Date: Tue, 19 May 2020 16:56:32 +0300 Message-ID: <83mu6481v3.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20200517165953.000044d2@web.de> <83lflqblp0.fsf@gnu.org> <83ftbybio3.fsf@gnu.org> <83zha69xs2.fsf@gnu.org> <83367x9qeq.fsf@gnu.org> <0ccae2a4-533b-d15c-2884-c2f00b067776@gmail.com> <83wo5987mk.fsf@gnu.org> <99d4beed-88ae-b5cd-3ecb-a44325c8a1dc@gmail.com> <20200518215908.GA57594@breton.holly.idiocy.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="70663"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: cpitclaudel@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Third Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue May 19 15:57:07 2020 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 1jb2jz-000IIG-1v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 19 May 2020 15:57:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60774 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jb2jy-00014G-1j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 19 May 2020 09:57:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:36184) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jb2jX-0000N5-4i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 May 2020 09:56:39 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:51316) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jb2jV-0006x9-Lm; Tue, 19 May 2020 09:56:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2997 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jb2jT-0000y3-PZ; Tue, 19 May 2020 09:56:36 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20200518215908.GA57594@breton.holly.idiocy.org> (message from Alan Third on Mon, 18 May 2020 23:59:11 +0200 (CEST)) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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:250915 Archived-At: > Date: Mon, 18 May 2020 23:59:11 +0200 (CEST) > From: Alan Third > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org > > In case anyone's interested, I've attached a screenshot of Apple's > Pages.app displaying the word Zapfino with the cursor after the "a". I don't see anything on or after "a", I see a thin vertical line on the "Z". is that what is actually displayed? If so, how do people know the cursor is after "a"?? > Clearly not ideal. OTOH, if LibreOffice, Firefox, and even Apple's > products do this, perhaps it's just the way people will expect it to > be done. If someone wants to work on such a feature, I'm sure it will be welcome by at least some of the users. Thanks.