"Joaquin Cuenca Abela" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in 03da01c1eb61$aee36de0$231611ac@lou:">news:03da01c1eb61$aee36de0$231611ac@lou:
>> Selection should select the entire ligature. > > The problem here is that some ligatures look "mostly" as the > original glyphs (occidental "ff" "fi" "ffi" "st", etc.) > Selecting the entire ligature here is VERY surprising > behaviour for the users. OK. Here's a proposal. There are very few ligatures in the Latin alphabet (only the ones you've mention are in actual use, I believe), so we can hardcode a different/special behaviour for these. Selecting an 'fi' ligature should select approx. half the glyph. This will work adequately. There *will* be some overlap, but that's not really a *big* problem. Note that there will also be some overlap when selecting kerned characters (I certainly hope Pango supports kerning!). E.g. in the string 'Ty', most of the 'y' will be positioned under the crossline of the 'T', and selecting the 'y' will also mark part of this crossline. Again, this is IMO not a problem. In other cases (Arabic &c.), we should select the entire glyph (or do whatever other Arabic-aware WPs do). -- Karl Ove Hufthammer
