On 01/16/2014 02:25 PM, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
hmm. I wasn't actually aware of that. But it makes sense. ;)
Note that the German support for LaTeX goes even one step further: The
command
"|
(to be inserted between the two non-ligature characters) adds some
small horizontal space to avoid glyph collisions.
I was about to ask in that direction. If for a font "ff" leads to
collisions, and the ligature is not correct at that point, is it
recommended to insert space or to switch the font? Or, stated
differently: Should I consider it a sign of low quality of a font if
consecutive letters collide or touch unpleasantly, even if a ligature
exists?
As mentioned by Urs, there is even a (semi)automatic solution called
`selnolig' which uses a dictionary of German words to find and handle
such non-ligatures properly (this is, you don't have to insert "| any
more).
Amazing. IIUC, that requires the /text rendering engine/ to bring it's
own dictionary? (How) does it work if the word is hyphenated at a
different position? I thought the rendering engine is called with small
units of text, such as the part before and after the hyphen separately;
so the context is sent additionally?
Best,
Alexander
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