Re: Ligature support

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2021 18:18:30 +0100
> 
> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> 
> > Well, it's one problem, and I think it's the one that has to be solved
> > first.  (I've now sent a message to the harfbuzz list to see whether
> > they have any input in how to get harfbuff to cough up this list of
> > strings based on the font.)
> 
> And if HarfBuzz doesn't have the functions to spit out the info (i.e.,
> if it only has lookups, but not introspection functionality), it should
> be to difficult to write a little .el to parse the otf files:
> 
> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/otff

If we have to.  But I still don't understand why would we care.