From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Apr 24 2002 - 11:17:10 EDT
--- Joaquin Cuenca Abela <cuenca@pacaterie.u-psud.fr>
wrote: >
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrew Dunbar" <hippietrail@yahoo.com>
> To: <abiword-dev@abisource.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 9:32 AM
> Subject: Re: undo and combining characters
>
>
> > --- Joaquin Cuenca Abela
> <cuenca@pacaterie.u-psud.fr>
> > 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
> cuenca@pacaterie.u-psud.fr
>
>
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