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That's not what ligatures are for; ligatures are for joining two adjacent letters. I don't believe font formats support this descender dodging feature for under
by WiseWeasel 12y ago
That's not what ligatures are for; ligatures are for joining two adjacent letters. I don't believe font formats support this descender dodging feature for underlining, hence the need for the renderer to take charge.
- fit2rule 12y agoWell, I would argue that using a ligature to establish the alpha gap around the lettering is a better use than hacking up a non-standard feature to the renderer. The gaps are attachments to the type, so ligatures are appropriate - since they would be used in this case to join/split the underline - which itself could be argued is a ligature, per-face, also.