On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:57:23 -0500 "H.S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo:
> I was wondering how does OOo deal with ligatures? Does OOo support them? If you mean like Adobe InDesign does, no. If you mean can you use them, yes. But using ligs in OOo is not automatic, you have to enter them with Insert Special Character, or use the character insert shortcut and code appropriate for your operating system. You can also macro it with successive search and replaces. Suppose, for example, that you want to use just the standard f-ligs. You can type the document without ligs, then record a macro that will search and replace the characters with the lig character. You'd have to do ffi first, then ffl, then fl, fi and finally ff. If you do (e.g.) fi first it will replace the fi in office, which is part of the ffi lig. There are problems with the search and replace macro. First, it will give your spell checker apoplexy. Second, You have to rerun the macro every time you add or change any text. And third, if you turn on hyphenation it will be messed up. On the other hand, until OOo supports discretionary ligatures, using a macro is the only workaround. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
