Re: Ligatures (was: Unify the Platforms: Cairo+FreeType+Harfbuzz Everywhere (except TTY))

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Trevor Spiteri <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 19 May 2020 12:09:32 +0200
> 
> For what it's worth, LibreOffice does it differently. I think what it
> does is place the cursor on the position it would be if any following
> text was missing. So moving after the second f in ffi would move the
> cursor to the same position as after ff if the i was missing.

This is only possible if the metrics of a sole f and f inside the
ligature are identical or sufficiently close.  That is not generally
true in ligatures, not even in Latin ligatures.