Louis Desjardins <louisdesjardins at videotron.ca> writes: > The issue about ligatures is there are very many. Few of them are > included in the regular set of fonts, such as ff, fi, fl, oe, ae. Some > others are put in a separate font. Adobe calls them Expert > fonts. There you can find all extra ligatures, such as ffi, ffl, ct, > etc., and lots of variations for capital letters, numbers, etc. In all > these cases, it is necessary to replace the glyph and the font. A task > I wouldn't do without a proper tool, given the many manipulation > errors that could occur.
I agree. Also, the proper ligatures depend upon hyphenation. In german, one puts ligatures inside syllables, not at their borders, where hyphenation is allowed. E.g. in "Pflanze" (syllables Pflan-ze) there is a fl ligature, but not in "Auflauf" (Auf-lauf). At least my 1961 Duden (orthography rule book) does it like this. Ciao Michael
