Closed Bug 25142 (ligatures) Opened 25 years ago Closed 17 years ago

[FEATURE] implement OpenType ligatures

Categories

(Core :: Layout: Text and Fonts, enhancement, P3)

x86
All
enhancement

Tracking

()

RESOLVED FIXED
Future

People

(Reporter: erik, Unassigned)

References

Details

(Keywords: helpwanted)

Subject: Re: Need OT font with ligatures for demo
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 09:27:03 -0800
From: Thomas Phinney <tphinney@adobe.com>
To: opentype@list.sirius.com

John, I imagine we'd be happy to help you with this. Feel free to contact
me directly off-list, and we can work out any details.

InDesign 1.0 offers full support for the OpenType 'liga' feature, which is
to say it automatically uses any and all arbitrary, non-contextual
ligatures which are intended to be on by default--though you can turn them
off if you wish.

InDesign 1.0 does not support 'dlig' (discretionary ligatures) or 'clig'
(contextual ligatures). Note that contextual means a context outside of the
characters being turned into a ligature. 'liga' alone is sufficient to
handle multi-character ligatures from arbitrary numbers of characters.
(There may be a limit, but I don't know offhand.)

Regards,

Thomas Phinney
Program Manager, Western Fonts
Adobe Systems Incorporated
tphinney@adobe.com


At 09:13 AM 1/26/2000 -0800, John Jenkins wrote:
>There's going to be a meeting of the UTC next week, and one of the items on
>the agenda is going to be a proposal to add a character to Unicode to
>specify ligature formation.  I hope to be able to demonstrate the fact that
>existing technologies -- namely OT and AAT -- can do very nicely with
>controlling ligature formation, but while I do have AAT fonts and apps, I
>don't have any OT fonts with a rich set of ligatures to use with InDesign.
>
>Anybody have a sample they'd be willing to send along for me to show people?
>NDA's are signable, of course, and credit will be given where credit is due.
>
>And an additional question for the Adobe folks (or anyone else who knows the
>answer):  Just how extensive *is* InDesign's support for ligatures?
>
>
>=====
>John H. Jenkins
>jenkins@apple.com
>tseng@blueneptune.com
>http://www.blueneptune.com/~tseng
Subject: RE: Need OT font with ligatures for demo
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 09:19:25 -0800
From: Paul Nelson <paulnel@microsoft.com>
To: "'opentype@list.sirius.com'" <opentype@list.sirius.com>

I have an Arabic OpenType font that has over 260 of the Arabic ligatures in
it. However, the selection of the ligatures is done through the LIGA feature
and does not need a control character.

Paul
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Target Milestone: M20
Marking FUTURE and helpwanted.
Keywords: helpwanted
Summary: implement OpenType ligatures → [FEATURE] implement OpenType ligatures
Target Milestone: M20 → Future
erik resign. reassign all his bug to ftang for now.
Assignee: erik → ftang
Status: ASSIGNED → NEW
mark all future new as assigned after move from erik to ftang
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
over shanjian, I don't think this is important for now. keep future.
Assignee: ftang → shanjian
Status: ASSIGNED → NEW
accepting.
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Blocks: 25587
Blocks: robin's
Blocks: 29302
Component: Layout → Layout: Fonts and Text
Changing severity to "enhancement".
Alias: ligatures
Severity: normal → enhancement
shanjian is no longer working on mozilla for 2 years and these bugs are still
here. Mark them won't fix. If you want to reopen it, find a good owner first. 
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Mass Re-open of Frank Tangs Won't fix debacle. Spam is his responsibility not my own
Status: RESOLVED → REOPENED
Resolution: WONTFIX → ---
Mass Re-assinging Frank Tangs old bugs that he closed won't fix and had to be
re-open. Spam is his fault not my own
Assignee: shanjian → nobody
Status: REOPENED → NEW
Handled by the new textframe code.
Reopen specific bug if needed.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago17 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
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