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------- Additional comments from [email protected] Wed Mar 10 10:45:34 +0000 2010 ------- Yes, this is for a handful of people. I write a book about OpenOffice.org and DTP, and I have positive experience with the semiautomatic ligature handling. F ligatures are not too frequent (for example, 1,3% of the English words of Orwell's 1984 contain fi, fl, ff, ffi or ffl characters). Lightproof underlines these words and calling the local menu by Shift-F10 and choosing the alternative word form with Unicode f ligature are not annoying (at least for Hungarian texts, maybe with lesser ligatures). But for languages with minimal morphology (like English) the full automatic ligature replacement can be made an Autocorrect extension. OpenOffice.org has already supported Unicode f-ligatures in searching and capitalization, so recognizing them by the spell checker is a natural extension. Finally, we need a temporarily alternative for the upcoming Microsoft Office 2010 (with ligature handling). (I have no information about the OpenOffice.org development to this direction.) By the way, the automatic OpenType solution of ligature handling has also potential problems: some languages, for example German doesn't use ligatures at word part boundaries in compound words. Also the HYPHENMIN values depends from the usage of ligatures. The fi- can be in the end of the lines in Hungarian, but this hyphenation is deprecated with ligatures. Related issues: Issue 109543 (Update Hyphen hyphenation library (improved hyphenation) and en_US hyphenation patterns) Issue 71608 (Bad non-standard hyphenation of diaeresis and Unicode f ligatures) Issue 56348 (Special letter characters in first letter position is not handled by spell checking in Writer) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
