On 02/10/11 13:53, Patrick Gundlach wrote: >> >>> * 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)
Neither was ij in dutch, but ff was separated. Which just goes to show you that doing letterspacing automatically is hard.... _______________________________________________ dev-luatex mailing list [email protected] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/dev-luatex
