Paul van der Laan
Paul van der Laan
This is hard to solve currently because variable and static fonts are really different beasts. The static Plex fonts have been tailored to work on a large number of applications...
@mjabbink We can have a look how to solve this in Q3. But as I wrote above this is hard to solve and we cannot guarantee a short-time fix.
Agreed. This will be nice to add.
The fact that the glyph in question does not exist in the font does not by definition mean that it will not be rendered. There are environments that use fallback...
Probably. Without fallback *any glyph* that is non-existent should be displayed with the .notdef character (AKA “tofu”).
> Would be worthwhile to properly handle all the ZWJ / ZWNJ characters maybe as part of the Math Symbols project? That could be a consideration. FWIW – ZWJ and...
> Well, this could be an actual problem. Perhaps. But when I use a zero width space with Plex in a macOS application such as TextEdit then I see no...
I'm curious how this can be solved best. Currently the feature code for the `allah` ligature ignores any marks in the input string: ``` lookupflag IgnoreMarks RightToLeft; sub alef-ar lam-ar.init...
Applying the example above will result in the following rendering: The `allah` ligature will only be used when both marks are explicitly included in the input text. In all other...
We decided to implement the suggestion by @khaledhosny to have two versions of the ligature: one ligature with shadda and small alef included, and one ligature without those marks. The...