Support ligature caret positioning provided in font
lojjic opened this issue · comments
See discussion in #304 and #306
The current approach of treating all skipped char indices as ligatures with evenly-spaced interior caret positions is not appropriate for many graphemes, e.g. surrogate pair emojis and characters with marks. The proper approach appears to be:
- By default, just use a single caret position for all char indices within a glyph
- Add support for parsing the Ligature Caret List table from GDEF
- For any multiple-char-spanning glyph, check if it appears in the Ligature Caret List table, and if so then use those positions.