Hi Thomas,
Am 25.04.2013 um 08:56 schrieb Thomas A. Schmitz <thomas.schm...@uni-bonn.de>:
> On 04/25/2013 08:20 AM, Keith J. Schultz wrote:
>> First I think it better if ligatures should be off as a default.
>
> Then you should not be using any form of TeX. ligatures have been part of TeX
> since its invention (TeXbook, p. 4), and they have been part of fine
> typesetting since Gutenberg. It's a sad consequence of the advent of
> abominations like Microsoft Word that people consider them superfluous.
I use XeLaTeX and ConText for it control. I have not touched Word in
decades, if possible
or any other WYSIWYG- system!
That being said, take a look at the books printed in this day and age.
You will find that
the use ligatures are not that common.
For me the fi-ligature, is estranging, as well as other while reading.
Others I find very pleasing.
I do not want to discuss esthetics. I was just expressing my opinion.
If the engross of ConText
users want ligatures as default that is fine with me.
On the other side, I believe, ligatures of off by default in LaTeX, et
al. or at least are feature
is set when the font is loaded.
>
>> Now, to my actual question.
>> Is there a way in ConText to selectively true certain ligatures on/ff.
>> for example fl could be on, but fi off.
>>
>> I know that I can set up the the editor to do it, or use unicode directly,
>> but
>> would prefer ConText to do the work.
>>
>
> Opentype fonts put ligatures into certain groups, so turning fi off while
> keeping fl is a bit difficult. I think you could use a font goodies file and
> put a zero-width empty space between f and i. There's a file demo.lfg in the
> standalone distribution which might be of help.
Thanx, for the pointer! Will look into it.
regards
Keith.
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