Re: [ft-devel] Problem with ligatures and strikes

[Werner LEMBERG]

> The Calibri font shipped in Windows XP has bitmap strikes for a
> variety of sizes, but from what I understand, no bitmap glyphs for
> many ligature combination it defines in its GSUB table, for example,
> for 'tt', 'ft', 'ffi' among others.  That results in very ugly
> rendering (see attached).
> 
> My question is, how does Windows deal with this?  Do they turn
> certain features off if using strikes?  Not form the ligature if not
> found in the current strike?  I need help understanding this to
> implement the correct behavior since I don't have access to Windows.

I'm interested in an answer too.  Anyone here who has some insight?
Otherwise we should probably contact the OpenType list for more
information.


    Werner