>exactly what do you mean by ligatures? i was talking about building a custom font that included ligatures so that when i type 2 specific characters together, a third in fact shows, which is an alternate (and preferred) version of the combination of the two. check this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographic_ligature (by the way, the street signs in the "German ß" section is right around the corner from me :-) ... it's amazing that even in this tiny photo you get the impression of how grey and ugly berlin is) >Do you actually mean beaming, as it seems above? sort of, but within a text string. i wanted to be able to type my character for a flagged 16th (for example) twice in a row and have the programme know that i want a beamed two-16th note figure and produce it, rather than having to create either a beam start and end character or a single glypohs containing the entire beamed figure. there are many reasons for me wanting this, that include managing an accessible mapping of glyphs that is complemented by the ligatures (inaccessible to the ordinary user as characters themselves, but showing when appropriate), and having greater control over the positioning of ties and dots for design consistency. >Ligatures have a very specific meaning historically... yes, but i said: >>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. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
