On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:57:13 -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, > > I am not familiar with Adobe InDesign. I was having LaTeX in mind though. I don't know how LaTeX does it. With InDesign you select some text (or an entire story) and check a box to use discretionary ligatures. There is a second box you can check as well for alternate ligatures. The first one gives you standard f-ligs and the second one gives you the extra or old-fashioned ones like st and ct that you find in some fonts. Once you check the box InDesign will display the text using the ligs instead of the f- letters. It will also print with the ligs. But internally it holds the text in its original format so spell checking and hyphenation still work as they should. In fact, hyphenation is so clever that if "office" needs to be broken it will put of- on the first line and start the second line with -fice, using the fi lig for -fice. If you move text around so "office" is no longer at the end of the line it automatically goes back to the ffi lig. It will do this with any OpenType font. If the font does not have the lig characters you specified in the formatting dialog box then it uses whatever ligs the font does have, including none if the font has no lig characters. You can also set either or both levels of discretionary ligs in a character, paragraph, or story style. > > 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 > hmm. Quite a bit of a work around. Any idea if ligatures support is one > of the forthcoming features in near future versions of OOo? I don't know, but I suspect not. If it's on the roadmap it's probably quite a way out. Somewhere on the OOo web site there is a roadmap, but I don't have the link. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
