Hello,
My problem : getting ligatures with (plain) XeTeX, the engine being pdfTeX with
TeXShop.
I am using XeTeX on a iMac under OS X leopard, with a french keyboard (since I
am french).
The coding used is UTF-8.
A few tests with my preferred fonts (sorry, I am very traditional):
Apple Garamond (very similar to Monotype Garamond), Baskerville and Hoefler
Text :
The ligatures -- and --- will work neither with Apple Garamond, nor
Baskerville, nor HoeflerText.
The ligatures fi, fl and ff will work with Hoefler Text, fi and fl with
Baskerville, none with Apple Garamond.
However, the ligatures --- (—), fi (fi) and fl (fl) exist on the keyboard as
<alt> -, <alt> g and <alt><shift>G.
If they are typed as such, XeTeX does translate them into the proper ligatures.
Therefore, they exist in Apple Garamond… and what about st and ct ?
I am not fond of diving into metafont. Would anybody know how to get them
without butchering into
XeTeX tables ?
Jean-Claude Raoult
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