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> No matter what fancy things you do with superscripts and subscripts, you're not going to be able to do even basic things you need for equations like use a fra
by bsder 11mo ago
> No matter what fancy things you do with superscripts and subscripts, you're not going to be able to do even basic things you need for equations like use a fraction bar, or parentheses that grow in height to match the content inside them.
Why not? Things like Arabic ligatures already do that, no?
- austinjp 11mo agoThis is interesting to me, but I am very naive about this. Can you explain, or point to where I could learn more?
- bsder 11mo agoI'd start with HarfBuzz: https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz That's the open source font shaping engine. It does a lot of work to handle font shaping and rendering for languages that can't really be reduced to characters.
- bruce343434 11mo agoArabic ligatures? Do you mean the unicode point for the basmala for instance? That's pretty "hardcoded", I think math requires more composability