Otoo Stolz asked: > In German, however, a ligature must not span a syllable break. > How should I code plain text, w.r.t. hyphenation and ligatures? > - "Huf" + ZWNJ + "lattich" > - "Huf" + SYH + "lattich" > - "Huf" + SYH + ZWNJ + "lattich" > - "Huf" + ZWNJ + SYH + "lattich"
You should code it as: "Huflattich" You then handle ligation suppression in a high-end rendering system either by exception dictionaries or by simply selecting "Huflattich" and setting a "ligaturing Off" property to suppress the "fl" ligation in that particular instance. There is no reason whatsoever to be agonizing about how to *convey* this level of detail -- in German, French, or whatever -- in plain text. If you are working with high end rendering where the exact details of the ligature rendering are of concern for your final presentation, then you are working with a rich text system, anyway, which has all kinds of tools for dealing with such issues. And hyphenation is typically done via higher level protocol (hyphenation engines using dictionaries), rather than trying to indicate hyphenation points explicitly in plain text that way. --Ken
