Re: Emacs 28: Specific TTF font gets loaded with font-backend x instead of ftcrhb

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2020 17:44:59 +0100
> 
> >> I've tried that code although with the PragmataPro font in the hope
> >> it would work at least partly given that both fonts offer a quite
> >> large common subset of ligatures but couldn't see any difference,
> >> e.g., -> is not composed to an arrow.
> >
> > That probably means PragmataPro doesn't support ligatures, at least
> > not the one for ->.
> 
> It does, at least I get an -> arrow glyph in gedit.

Can you show the code you tried to use, and also tell in which version
of Emacs did you try that?

> Ok, I'll tinker with it when I find some spare time.

Feel free to ask any questions or point out unclear areas, we should
at least make the effort of clarifying the existing docs to the extent
that we are able.