Even if Finale now has Unicode support, this doesn't mean that ligatures should work. Automatic ligatures would require a certain level of *OpenType* support. Looks like you'd have to encode them and then access them directly.
On 19 September 2012 06:23, SN jef chippewa <[email protected]>wrote: > > i am designing a font (open type) containing characters for durations > and to be used for tempo indications and time sigs and am trying to > get ligatures to work. for example, when i type 2 flagged sixteenth > notes directly after one another, 2 beamed 16ths result. > > as i understand, this should in fact work, since finale now has > unicode support? the ligature i created works in the font design > programme but not in finale or in iWork's pages. in both i can type > the actual character the ligature is placed in and it appears > correctly, but it doesn't automatically show, as it should. > > has anyone worked with ligatures in finale successfully? > > (PS i know other fonts exist, but the only one that is decent enough > to be useful for me is bach, but i find it has limitations and i > don't like the look of it :-). anyways, i need straight flags and > the look of it has to be consistent with my other custom fonts) > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
