Behdad Esfahbod

I'm getting nervous about this mess we have right now. Let's aim for an understanding and agreement here. @jfkthame can you please chip in?

Basically question is, I think, do we want to have a set of "sticky" variations on the font, and then adjustments automatically applied on top of that? Or maybe that's...

> hb_font_set_var_named_instance (font, instance); > hb_font_set_variations (font, just_one_axis, 1); Okay I like to make this work by making the font remember its named instance and anchor to it.

> `hb_font_set_var_named_instance` sets all axes, of course; `hb_font_set_variations` could then be used to adjust one (or more) of the axes from the values that the instance specified, so that the...

This is a known issue. I don't have a good answer for it. Our current answer is: "shape with next font and see", which, understandably, is inefficient.

The translation table you are suggesting we change was also received from Apple. Let me ask this: why do you care? Why is anyone manually setting `vert` or `vrt2`? Oh,...

@drott can you add more context here?

Thanks for the kind words. As you note, we didn't change anything in that respect. Is it possible that you are using a Pango built with DirectWrite instead of Uniscribe...

> [Harfbuzz is built using DirectWrite](https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages/blob/master/mingw-w64-harfbuzz/PKGBUILD#L59), Okay I'm guessing that it has to do with directwrite then. Looks like there's API to get the blob itself: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/dwrite/nf-dwrite-idwritefontfilestream-readfilefragment but that's on...

Yeah that is mysterious. I have no idea.