Re: [XeTeX] Ligatures

2013-06-19 Thread Philip Taylor
Jean-Claude Raoult wrote: Please, think of people using plain TeX. I am certainly not the only one. Indeed you are not, Jean-Claude, and I too like ct and st ligatures in high-quality typography. I am reasonably certain that it is possible without using the execrable LaTeX, but with a

Re: [XeTeX] Ligatures

2013-06-19 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 19.06.2013 um 11:39 schrieb Philip Taylor: If I find no more informative replies by the time I am next online, I will investigate further and report back. The fontspec manual describes it. The keywords are rlig, hlig, clig, etc. They can be (de)activated in plain TeX as in:

Re: [XeTeX] Ligatures

2013-06-19 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
The fontspec manual describes it. The keywords are rlig, hlig, clig, etc. For more details on OpenType tags, you might want to check the specification, and match the list of tags defined in the font at hand with it: http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/featuretags.htm Also, the

Re: [XeTeX] Ligatures

2013-06-19 Thread Jean-Claude Raoult
Le 19/06/2013 12:23, Khaled Hosny a écrit : On Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 11:53:00AM +0200, Jean-Claude Raoult wrote: The documentation is clear, for people using LaTeX or rather XeLaTeX. Presumably because you were reading LaTeX oriented documentation? XeTeX documentation itself documents the low

Re: [XeTeX] Ligatures

2013-06-19 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 01:49:26PM +0200, Jean-Claude Raoult wrote: Le 19/06/2013 12:23, Khaled Hosny a écrit : On Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 11:53:00AM +0200, Jean-Claude Raoult wrote: The documentation is clear, for people using LaTeX or rather XeLaTeX. Presumably because you were reading LaTeX

Re: [XeTeX] Ligatures

2013-06-19 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
Thank you. This is just what I needed. Incidentally, the tag +liga yielding ligatures for fi, ff, fl, ffi and ffl is the default. It shoul be disabled for small caps: I'm pretty sure this is taken care of by the font. Have you observed a small caps fi ligature? I don't even see why a font

Re: [XeTeX] Ligatures

2013-06-19 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 01:11:55PM +0100, Arthur Reutenauer wrote: Thank you. This is just what I needed. Incidentally, the tag +liga yielding ligatures for fi, ff, fl, ffi and ffl is the default. It shoul be disabled for small caps: I'm pretty sure this is taken care of by the font.