Michael Below wrote: >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 > > Yes, it a complicated, user interactive, issue, Michael. You can see in Adobe's InDesign CS how they handled it, using many opinions to finally settle on what they have, a somewhat complicated set of alternates, all with OTF capabilities.
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