Re: Supporting stylistic sets

["समीर सिंह Sameer Singh" <lumarzeli30@gmail.com>]

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> Then font-level specification of this would not be as simple as was
> originally suggested, I think: the characters were missing from that
> suggestion.


We don't have to specify each character for which we want the
stylistic-set, we just simply would have to pass the tags
and hb_shape_full would take care of the rest.

On Sat, Sep 24, 2022 at 1:57 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > From: समीर सिंह Sameer Singh <lumarzeli30@gmail.com>
> > Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2022 13:30:00 +0530
> > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> >
> >  You are thinking about one particular use case.  There might be
> >  others.
> >
> > What might be the other use cases?
>
> I don't really know.  That was a comment asking for responses from
> anyone who could know.
>
> >  Btw, is it always the case that, when using a particular font, users
> >  will want to apply the same stylistic-set feature to all of the
> >  characters from the font that have alternative glyphs?  If not, then
> >  font-level feature sets are not going to solve that, and we will need
> >  to be able to specify this for each character individually.
> >
> > There are different stylistic-set features for different glyphs.
> > For example in FiraCode to change "a" there is cv01, for "g" cv02 etc.
>
> Then font-level specification of this would not be as simple as was
> originally suggested, I think: the characters were missing from that
> suggestion.
>

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