Re: Add usage of OpenType font feature to the documents (issue 328140043 by address@hidden)

[tisimst . lilypond]

On 2017/08/01 17:49:47, lemzwerg wrote:
> > I looked into the latest Harfbuzz internals, and it looks like
> > the list of supported OpenType features is manually maintained.

> Nope.

> > Not all the features listed on the Microsoft feature registry
> > are supported, but many are.

> HarfBuzz is agnostic to most features; if you select a feature, and
the feature
> is available, and the other feature constraints are met, it simply
gets applied.

> > This list [in HarfBuzz] covers pretty much all likely candidates
> > a user is going to encounter or want to use in modern fonts, so it
> > probably isn't worth listing each of the supported features.

> You are mistaken.  What you are referring to is a special interface to
OS X's
> `coretext' implementation of OpenType.

I very much appreciate your insight and correction. So, there's no
reason to provide or point to a separate list other than the Microsoft
registry?



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