--- Joaquin Cuenca Abela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Andrew Dunbar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 9:32 AM > Subject: Re: undo and combining characters > > > > --- Joaquin Cuenca Abela > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > The problem here is that some ligatures look > > > "mostly" as the original glyphs > > > (occidental "ff" "fi" "ffi" "st", etc.) > > > Selecting the entire ligature here is VERY > > > surprising behaviour for the > > > users. > > > > It would show the user that she is dealing with > > ligatures though. You're not always editing text > that > > you entered yourself. > > I don't agree. The user will only see that his "fi" > are being selected > atomically. I don't think that a church secretary > will even know what is a > ligature. And we should ligate f and i together to > get the best possible > typographie. > > One possibility is to not do these ligatures at the > editing stage, and to do > them in printing, but then we lose WYSISYG...
If we are going to do auto-ligating, we really should provide an option for it. Note also that it will be font-dependent. It's always going to be possible to use the 'fi' ligature codepoint but we might have some fonts with the ligature and some without it. We could support this with a fix to: http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2421 Andrew Dunbar. > Cheers, > > -- > Joaquin Cuenca Abela > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ===== http://linguaphile.sourceforge.net http://www.abisource.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com
