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Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-text] [css-inline] Define how to deal with inline backgrounds whose boundary falls into a ligature (#5251)

From: jfkthame via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2020 08:30:21 +0000
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> > This is what rlig vs the various other ligature features are supposed to distinguish.
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> That should be true, but the boundary is fuzzy even in the OpenType spec: Khmer, for instance, [requires the "clig" (contextual ligatures) feature](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/script-development/khmer) for layout, despite it being theoretically discretionary.

There's that; and then there's also the fact that ligation (mapping two or more encoded text units to a single rendered glyph) can happen in other OpenType features, depending on details of font construction -- for example, various Indic shaping features may be implemented as ligatures. Ligature lookups are not limited to occurring in features *called* "ligatures".

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