Re: Bounty for Fixing Ligature Bug?

[Joshua Nichols]

Thanks for clarifying. What would you call the directory that says when to use ligatures? Am I on the right track?

On Oct 6, 2014 9:48 PM, "Abraham Lee" <address@hidden> wrote:

Josh,

It's not the hints. Font hints are instructions for the computer to render the glyphs more accurately at small sizes. Unfortunately, it's a different issue. 

-Abraham

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On Oct 6, 2014, at 8:25 PM, Joshua Nichols <address@hidden> wrote:

I apologize for not responding sooner.

I went back over the bug report, and I'm more confused now than I was before. Some seem to suggest that it may be a limitation with the simplicity of pango, but I know that it is at least working on 32-bit versions of linux. What needs to be tested then?

I'm imagining that the program would need to test the ... (and correct me lily-list if I'm wrong)... the pango font "hints?" I have no idea what I'm saying. But, to my eyes and mind, it looks like the issue is that something is glitching when the program calls the pango-something or another... whatever...

Help at all? *shrugs*

IC,

Josh

On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 12:03 PM, Phil Holmes <address@hidden> wrote:

----- Original Message ----- From: "Werner LEMBERG" <address@hidden>
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Subject: Re: Bounty for Fixing Ligature Bug?

I have read it. I know essentially what is happening, but I am not
experienced at all with testing this sort of thing. It seems that
the issue reported is stated pretty clearly, and that the questions
are pretty much answered,

This is not correct.  The most important part, namely to write a small
test program for Pango that should be run on Windows and/or 64bit
GNU/Linux platforms, is *not* done.

it's just a matter of IMPLEMENTING it.

I guess that this is not too difficult as soon as we have a test
program...


   Werner

I have a couple of development environments for Windows: a gcc-based one, which I've used for LilyPad development and a M$ C# one which I use more extensively.  If you could point to what the test program would need to do, I could write, compile and test it.

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Phil Holmes

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