On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 03:39:36PM +0000, Caolán McNamara wrote: > FWIW, as it came up as a question in the main track FOSDEM LibreOffice > talk, in vcl/generic/glyphs/gcach_layout.cxx see IcuLayoutEngine::layout > and... > if (rArgs.mnFlags & SAL_LAYOUT_ENABLE_LIGATURES) > nLayoutFlags |= LayoutEngine::kTypoFlagLiga; > so ligatures are disabled by default unless SAL_LAYOUT_ENABLE_LIGATURES > is enabled, and SAL_LAYOUT_ENABLE_LIGATURES is only set if > TEXT_LAYOUT_ENABLE_LIGATURES is set on the outputdevice, and that > doesn't happen anywhere as of yet :-(
I was wondering about this a while ago, but thought it was just me not finding where the magic is. > It would be no major problem to e.g. bubble up allowing those ligatures > to be set explicitly via the UI, or e.g. defaulted on via a new > compatibility flag for new docs, but the last time I played around with > it I ran into the snag that with our current Linux rendering stack via > cairo we get the unfortunate visual effect that ligatures appear bold in > Calibri, etc. I see Calibri only, no etc's :), so blocking ligature support (which is so 80s, even MS Office now supports OpenType features for Latin) because is of a bug in a single font in certain configurations is overreacting IMHO. Regards, Khaled _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
