Re: Ligatures (was: Unify the Platforms: Cairo+FreeType+Harfbuzz Everywhere (except TTY))

[Alan Third]

On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 04:56:32PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 18 May 2020 23:59:11 +0200 (CEST)
> > From: Alan Third <address@hidden>
> > Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> > 
> > In case anyone's interested, I've attached a screenshot of Apple's
> > Pages.app displaying the word Zapfino with the cursor after the "a".
> 
> I don't see anything on or after "a", I see a thin vertical line on
> the "Z".  is that what is actually displayed?  If so, how do people
> know the cursor is after "a"??

Yep, that's what's displayed. The vertical line is the cursor. The
only reason I know it's after the a is because I hit the right arrow
twice to get there from the left of the glyph.

-- 
Alan Third