On 02/02/2018 23:31, Andrew Pennebaker wrote:
Hello,
I would really like convenient access to ligatures in my word processing
software. Unfortunately, none of the major text editing applications
appears to handle ligatures intelligently: Each of Emacs, Vim, Nano, MS
Word, Google Drive, Libre Office, and InDesign type a dumb "ae" when the
user presses the a and e keyboard keys, whereas historically this
sequence is typically rendered with the ash æ rune.
I am able to work around this limitation in most applications by
configuring TextExpander (macOS, Windows) or autokey (Linux) to match
the keyboard sequence "ae" and replace this with "æ". This allows most
UTF-8 compatible graphical software, from Web browsers to document
editors, to correctly insert æ in place of ae. However, traditional text
editors including Emacs, Vim, and Nano are evidently NOT able to handle
a literal æ rune insertion, and tend to raise a generic error message
when the text expander application attempts to insert this key.
Besides what others have suggested, on macOS I'd recommend Ukelele
(http://scripts.sil.org/ukelele). It allows you to easily define your
own system-wide keyboard layouts. According to the web site: "Ukelele
can assign multiple-character strings and can create "dead keys", where
a keystroke sets a new state that modifies the output of the following
keystroke."
Hope this helps,
Life.
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