Re: [css-fonts][css-text] letter-spacing vs. font-variant-ligatures

On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 6:49 PM, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net> wrote:
...
> the element with tracking, depending on whether it ends up having
> text that triggers a ligature, will produce some very unevenly-spaced
> text. E.g.
>
>   fi n d  vs.  f i n d
...

As a point in favor of fantasai's suggestion being the Right Thing,
see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=443853 and
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=464168 , in which we
(Gecko) were specifically asked to have 'letter-spacing' override UA
default use of ligatures.

zw