On Feb 10, 2011, at 7:56 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > 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....
ck and ij would be (like ae and oe) diphthongs --- linguistic constructs denoting specific sounds. ff is a ligature --- the joining together of two or more characters for stylistic or technical reasons. William -- William Adams senior graphic designer Fry Communications Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow. _______________________________________________ dev-luatex mailing list [email protected] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/dev-luatex
