> 
>> * in pdftex, \letterspacefont does not disable the ligatures, but this is 
>> what happens in luatex.
> 
> IMO that's a desireable behaviour, not a bug. See Bringhurst, Oliver Simon's 
> _Introduction to Typography_ &c.
> 
> A control to turn it off or on (defaulting to disabling the ligatures) would 
> be okay, but I've had to put a lot of effort into turning off ligatures when 
> letterspacing and it's a pain.

In older german texts ligatures are not letter spaced. For example:

B i s m a r ck

(the ck ligature is not seperated)

Patrick


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