The ligature disabling code has been manually verified, but I was unable
to reftest it. (The only way I could think of would be to create an
Ahem-like font with a ligature table, but that would be an awful lot of
work.)
Near as I can tell, the method used to apply the spacing (manually
inserting extra advance post-shaping) matches Gecko.
construction to avoid cloning and moving flows so much.
Besides amounting to a 5%-10% win on a page with a lot of text, this
simplifies and refactors the text layout code.