Hi Werner,

On Sat, 2025-09-13 at 10:36 +0000, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> AFAIK, the code in luatex to handle OpenType features (in 'node' mode)
> was derived from FontForge.

Luigi and Hans will correct me if I'm wrong here, but I don't believe
that this is the case.

The LuaTeX engine contains a built-in "fontloader" module, which is
indeed based off of FontForge. In the past, the ConTeXt/luaotfload font
code used this module, but at some point, this was rewritten in pure
Lua, so the current ConTeXt/luaotfload font code does not use the
"fontloader" module at all. The "fontloader" module couldn't be removed
due to backwards compatibility concerns, but as far as I'm aware, nobody
uses the "fontloader" module for anything right now.

Thanks,
-- Max

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