Khaled Hosny

See http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/47031/in-lualatex-hyphenation-doesnt-seem-to-work-for-words-that-contain-certain-lig/47128#47128

Luaotfload is not as optimised as ConTeXt

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For example, fonts taking huge amount of memory and forever to load, like Arno Pro, take much less time and memory when used with ConTeXt. Someone needs to discuss this...

Some font names are not recognised

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List compiled by Pander, see http://tug.org/pipermail/luatex/2010-November/002246.html. AntykwaTorunskaCondLight-Regular.otf Antykwa Torunska Condensed Light AntykwaTorunskaCondLight-Italic.otf Antykwa Torunska Condensed Light AntykwaTorunskaCondMed-Regular.otf Antykwa Torunska Condensed Medium AntykwaTorunskaLight-Regular.otf Antykwa Torunska Light AntykwaTorunskaLight-Italic.otf Antykwa Torunska Light AntykwaTorunskaMed-Regular.otf...

List all the licenses of test fonts

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All the fonts should be OFL or MIT I believe, but I think I should double check and list them all.

Lookup flags in fonts with no GDEF table

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Someone reports [an issue](https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135778) in LibreOffice about some Iranian fonts like B Nazanin (fonts attached in the LIbreOffice issue). Basically the font has mark ligatures for shadda and the lookups...

Document HarfBuzz private BCP 47 sub-tags

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I seem to keep misunderstanding what these sub-tags can do (e.g. #2271) and they seem to be undocumented. It would be good to add something to the documentation on what...

Develop an API to useful bitfields of a font

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I was going to try porting LibreOffice to the new metrics API, when I remembered that I need access to OS/2 `fsSelection` (or at least the `USE_TYPO_METRICS` bit) to make...

This was reported to HarfBuzz, https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues/2098, but the following fonts don’t seem to be used in any of the test cases (or anywhere in the repository): ``` fonts/TestRVRN-CFF2.otf fonts/TestRVRN.ttf fonts/TestVRTR-CID-Regular.otf...

Pre-release glyphsLib sets erase open corners filer in UFO lib, but it is ignored when using `gftools builder`, apparently because it calls fontmake `--filter` whose documentation states `The option overrides...