Philippe Verdy <verdy underscore p at wanadoo dot fr> wrote: > If encoding ligation oportunity is not plain-text, why then have it in > Unicode? > If hyphenation opportunity is not plain-text, why then have it in > Unicode?
Both of these capabilities are arguably plain-text. There is such a thing as over-using them to the point where you have crossed the line into markup. This is probably an aesthetic judgment. > Nobody is required to use them, but if one wants to do it for better > rendering of prepared documents, why would Unicode forbid it? Was my > question really so stupid? You really don't see anything wrong with inserting 5 formatting characters in an 8-letter word? If you are feeding your plain text into a system that is capable of high-quality typography, such as InDesign, then it should generate ff-type ligatures and perform sensible hyphenation by default. You can then use ZWNJ to turn ligation *off* where it is not desired. Of course you are not "forbidden" to go the other way, and mark every ff-ligature and hyphenation point in your text, but it seems like overkill if you are planning to use a high-end rendering system anyway. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
