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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=368561 --- Comment #19 from Kevin Kofler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2008-11-10 04:47:38 EDT --- > That's a naïve western view. An awful lot of "letters" in unicode and opentype > are not just "letters" but are rendered via various magic of which ligatures > are a very small part. Sorry, I expressed myself badly. I know ligatures and similar constructs are commonplace in some alphabets (Arabic and most of the Indic scripts, for example). So let me correct myself: -> Why can't a Latin letter just be a letter? <- To me all this ligature stuff for Latin letters looks like a solution looking for a problem, i.e. "hey, we have all this complex text layout framework for Arabic and Indic scripts, let's also use it for Latin just to be fancy". > http://www.josbuivenga.demon.nl/tallys.html Those are very good examples of the fi ligature gobbling up the dot on the i. > This is just a freetype autohinter bug. We can't ask font designers to ignore > the patented bytecode engine and at the same time not support stuff that work > with it. They wouldn't have to do anything at all. My proposal is to disable ligatures for Latin letters systemwide in Pango and Qt 4 Scribe, any ligatures provided by fonts would just be ignored (as they were in the past, and still are in e.g. Qt 3 apps). As for the kerning, I know it's a separate issue, I only brought it up here because it's part of the same philosophy of special-casing letter pairs. But let's limit ourselves to ligatures in this bug report. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Fedora-fonts-bugs-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-bugs-list
