Re: A little info about ligatures and e.g. Calibri

On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 04:15:00PM +0000, Caolán McNamara wrote:
> On Sun, 2013-02-03 at 17:58 +0200, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> > 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.
>
> *shrug*, its why I wasn't motivated to go and figure out a UI to
> enable/disable ligatures or see if a compatibility option was a better
> idea etc because I'd just get a slew of bugs that "my text is bold".

GTK have been enabling ligatures and other default OpenType features
since ages (since before I started using computers :p), so probably the
situation is not that bad.

Regards,
Khaled