The Germans do not like ligatures across compound words, and that is
much harder to do in an automated way (not in fonts themselves at
least).
That's a good point, but it's a slightly different issue from
prohibiting some ligatures altogether: in German ligatures should be
disabled depending
thinking of it: one reason why a general purpose word processor used
by people with no idea about things like ligatures, is that
ligatures are language dependent
I don't think that's necessary relevant: the only example I can think
of language-dependent ligatures is fi and ffi for Turkish
Quite so. The words I was wrong seem to be a bit difficult for
some people.
Yes, it's amazing how to some people you're wrong sounds like an
offence, and the explanation of why an outright insult.
Arthur
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 01:28:20PM +0100, Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
thinking of it: one reason why a general purpose word processor used
by people with no idea about things like ligatures, is that
ligatures are language dependent
I don't think that's necessary relevant: the only example
On Apr 27, 2013, at 12:16 AM, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote:
Someone had to show me the first ligature years ago and when he did
that, I had to check every single book and document I had at hand to
check if ligatures were really commonly used. I simply couldn't
believe my eyes and the fact
On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 12:16 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:
On 4/26/2013 11:48 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
PS: if you really hate the ligatures, you can try to help improve this
interesting package to handle ligatures (it probably has the most
potential in engines other than XeTeX/LuaTeX because it's a
Hi Thomas,
Am 25.04.2013 um 08:56 schrieb Thomas A. Schmitz thomas.schm...@uni-bonn.de:
On 04/25/2013 08:20 AM, Keith J. Schultz wrote:
First I think it better if ligatures should be off as a default.
Then you should not be using any form of TeX. ligatures have been part of TeX
since its
On 4/26/2013 9:41 AM, Keith J. Schultz wrote:
Hi Thomas,
Am 25.04.2013 um 08:56 schrieb Thomas A. Schmitz thomas.schm...@uni-bonn.de:
On 04/25/2013 08:20 AM, Keith J. Schultz wrote:
First I think it better if ligatures should be off as a default.
Then you should not be using any form of
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 09:41:15AM +0200, Keith J. Schultz wrote:
On the other side, I believe, ligatures of off by default in LaTeX, et
al. or at least are feature
is set when the font is loaded.
So you neither use LaTeX nor ConTeXt?
Hi Khaled,
When I used LaTeX last if I had fi in my text that is how it came out!
Using ConTeXt I noticed that fi becomes a ligature, did not like, but it
was not that important.
Till I decided to start using ConTeXt I had been using XeLaTeX.
regards
Keith.
Am 26.04.2013 um 10:20
On 4/26/2013 2:12 PM, Keith J. Schultz wrote:
Hi Khaled,
When I used LaTeX last if I had fi in my text that is how it came out!
Using ConTeXt I noticed that fi becomes a ligature, did not like, but it
was not that important.
also keep in mind that ligatures are language dependent (if the font
On 04/26/2013 09:41 AM, Keith J. Schultz wrote:
I use XeLaTeX and ConText for it control. I have not touched Word in decades,
if possible
or any other WYSIWYG- system!
That being said, take a look at the books printed in this day and age.
You will find that
the use
I don’t know what LaTeX you were using, but LaTeX does not and will not
disable ligatures by default (there isn’t even a way in original TeX to
disable ligatures globally, short of editing TFM files).
Regards,
Khaled
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 02:12:07PM +0200, Keith J. Schultz wrote:
Hi Khaled,
Hi Khaled,
to be honest I never noticed them when I was using LaTeX. It might have been
the fonts.
I can live with them being on as a default in ConTeXt and know now how to turn
them
off.
regards
Keith.
Am 26.04.2013 um 20:27 schrieb Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org:
I don’t know
Am 26.04.2013 um 18:43 schrieb Thomas A. Schmitz thomas.schm...@uni-bonn.de:
Hi Keith,
if you look at the books of decent publishers, you will see that most of them
still use ligatures (most American university presses, Oxford and Cambridge,
German publishers such as Reclam etc.)
Greetings, Keith, Thomas, and all,
On Fri, 26 Apr 2013 10:43:59 -0600, Thomas A. Schmitz
thomas.schm...@uni-bonn.de wrote:
if you look at the books of decent publishers, you will see that most of
them still use ligatures (most American university presses, Oxford and
Cambridge, German
On 04/26/2013 10:05 PM, Keith J. Schultz wrote:
I never said that they do not have ligatures. I never said XeLaTeX does not have
the ability to use them I have read the fontspec manual!
You wrote:
On the other side, I believe, ligatures of off by default in LaTeX
which is wrong. That's
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 9:57 PM, Keith J. Schultz wrote:
to be honest I never noticed them when I was using LaTeX. It might have been
the fonts.
Someone had to show me the first ligature years ago and when he did
that, I had to check every single book and document I had at hand to
check if
On 4/26/2013 11:48 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 9:57 PM, Keith J. Schultz wrote:
to be honest I never noticed them when I was using LaTeX. It might have been
the fonts.
Someone had to show me the first ligature years ago and when he did
that, I had to check every single
On 4/26/2013 10:17 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
...It points out that Word
is the reason why some people consider ligatures unusual.
thinking of it: one reason why a general purpose word processor used by
people with no idea about things like ligatures, is that ligatures are
language
On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 12:16:42AM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
On 4/26/2013 11:48 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
I consider this (the fact that one doesn't notice it) part of a good
design. It's similar with kerning: one doesn't notice it until/unless
it's bad. It's similar in the kitchen also. One
Hi Wolfgang, All,
First I think it better if ligatures should be off as a default.
Now, to my actual question.
Is there a way in ConText to selectively true certain ligatures on/ff.
for example fl could be on, but fi off.
I know that I can set up the the editor to do it, or use unicode
On 04/25/2013 08:20 AM, Keith J. Schultz wrote:
First I think it better if ligatures should be off as a default.
Then you should not be using any form of TeX. ligatures have been part
of TeX since its invention (TeXbook, p. 4), and they have been part of
fine typesetting since Gutenberg.
Hi,
\usemodule[simplefonts]
\setmainfont[AGaramondPro]
\starttext
Amficool
\stoptext
gives an i without dot, see attachment. And the letters i and f
are curiously bonded.
The second attachment shows the same word written in MS-Word, again with
Adobe Garamond Pro, without this curiosity.
Am 24.04.2013 um 10:39 schrieb H. Özoguz h.oezo...@mmnetz.de:
Hi,
\usemodule[simplefonts]
\setmainfont[AGaramondPro]
\starttext
Amficool
\stoptext
gives an i without dot, see attachment. And the letters i and f are
curiously bonded.
The second attachment shows the same word
On Wed, Apr 24 2013, H. Özoguz wrote:
The second attachment shows the same word written in MS-Word, again with Adobe
Garamond Pro, without this curiosity.
Perhaps a bug in M$-Word...? ;)
--
Peter
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Am 24.04.2013 um 11:00 schrieb Peter Münster pmli...@free.fr:
On Wed, Apr 24 2013, H. Özoguz wrote:
The second attachment shows the same word written in MS-Word, again with
Adobe
Garamond Pro, without this curiosity.
Perhaps a bug in M$-Word...? ;)
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