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: Wed, 20 May 2020 21:49:12 +0300 Message-ID: <83o8qi5tnb.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> <83mu6481v3.fsf@gnu.org> <75a90563-51b4-d3b8-4832-fc0e2542af0d@gmail.com> <83blmi7hys.fsf@gnu.org> <20da4649-db25-64f9-12d1-e8c8a560c868@gmail.com> <83wo565vui.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="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="16500"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: alan@idiocy.org, pipcet@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?utf-8?Q?Cl=C3=A9ment?= Pit-Claudel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed May 20 20:49:48 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 1jbTml-0004Bm-TX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 20 May 2020 20:49:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54004 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jbTmk-00080q-VR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 20 May 2020 14:49:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:33890) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jbTmE-0007Fe-Dd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 May 2020 14:49:14 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:55484) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jbTmD-0002df-55; Wed, 20 May 2020 14:49:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2955 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jbTmB-0006Kk-Mo; Wed, 20 May 2020 14:49:12 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from =?utf-8?Q?Cl=C3=A9ment?= Pit-Claudel on Wed, 20 May 2020 14:33:24 -0400) 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:251097 Archived-At: > Cc: pipcet@gmail.com, alan@idiocy.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Clément Pit-Claudel > Date: Wed, 20 May 2020 14:33:24 -0400 > > On 20/05/2020 14.01, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > >> But regardless, what's the issue with ⇒? > > > > The issue with ⟹ is that the stem doesn't seem to be splittable into 2 > > parts, whereas "==" are two characters. > > Oh, I see the worry, but I don't think it's a problem — it's a feature to split the stem into two parts :) Then I guess we have very different views of what is a "feature". To me, this looks like a terrible kludge. > In a monospace font, it should look obvious what's happening, since ⟹ will occupy three columns. Here it occupies only two.