On Sun, 27 Mar 2011, Paul Isambert wrote: > Both, actually. The font by itself does nothing, it simply indicates what the > rendering engine should do. I suppose (because it's seems the simplest way > here) that this is implemented as a ligature.
By that logic it could be said that no software ever does anything, it only indicates what the computer hardware should do. What I meant was, does the handling of variation selectors consist entirely of a feature table with "sub xxx yyy by zzz" entries, so that it could be turned on in XeTeX the same way we turn on ligatures? That's a simple yes/no question. As you say it would make sense for the answer to be "yes", but I haven't been able to find an authoritative answer on the Net. -- Matthew Skala [email protected] People before principles. http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/ -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
