Re: master f34f474e386: Properly instruct compound glyphs with compound components

[Po Lu]

Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> writes:

> Does "to wit" here mean "to know"?  If so, could we install something
> like the below?
>
> Merriam Webster tells me that "wit" used as a verb is "archaic", so I'd
> propose avoiding that word completely.

"wit" is only archiac as a verb, not in the set phrase "to wit", whose
meaning is much like viz. or namely.  Here is one example of its use:

  
https://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/23/world/a-letter-to-the-president-a-lesson-in-style.html

  Westerners cap the salutations of their business letters with a colon,
  to wit: Dear Mr. Doe:. Not so Russians, who fire off important
  missives with gunpowder, as with ''Respected Rodion Romanovich!'' or
  ''Dear Mrs. Raskolnikov!''