Hello Hans,
thank you very much for this quick fix.
I'll have to switch to the beta branch to try it out. At least I can now
suppress ligatures with a replacement list, which is enough for now.
As far as I understood selnoligs works with regular expressions (black
magic!). It is very time consuming, but CPU time is cheap. ;-)
Thanks a lot and a nice sunny day.
juh
Am 11.08.15 um 10:19 schrieb Hans Hagen:
> On 8/11/2015 8:25 AM, Jan U. Hasecke wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I want to follow up on my own message below.
>>
>> I got the hint offlist that it should not be too difficult to convert a
>> LaTeX package into a ConTeXt module.
>
> I don't know but it would probably be a bit alien approach in the
> context code base
>
>> So I guess that there is no built-in functionality of semantical
>> switching between ligatures and normal characters.
>
> The official way to do this is:
>
> \starttext
> shel\noligature{ff}ul
> \stoptext
>
> which also preserves hyphenation and kerning as well as other tricky
> features that a font provides.
>
> The best place to incorporate such a feature is in the hyphenator but I
> have no time now to do that. So, instead I added a few lines to an
> existing (probably unknown) mechanism:
>
> \replaceword[more][shelfful] [shel{ff}ul]
> \replaceword[more][shifffahrt][shi{ff}fahrt]
>
> \starttext
> shel\noligature{ff}ul
>
> \setreplacements[more]
>
> shelfful
> \stoptext
>
> The downside of the 10 line extension is that it's not the most
> efficient implementation but probably still fast enough.
>
>> I am not a typographer – maybe I am wrong – but I don't like ligatures
>> in the wrong places. Inserting ligature stoppers by hand is a tedious
>> work.
>
> I don't like ligatures in most places (why only the few famous ones ...
> a bit imposed tradition limited to old constraints)
>
>> The latex package selnoligs was beneficial to me when I made a book with
>> more than 1000 pages, where I would never managed to stop ligatures by
>> hand.
>>
>> So what is your opinion about such a feature?
>
> You can probably make a list of special words and adding that to a
> module is no big deal. I have no time to look into what is around and do
> that myself.
>
> I uploaded a beta.
>
> Hans
>
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