Re: activating font specific ligatures

[Peter Rolf <indiego@gmx.net>]

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Arthur Reutenauer schrieb:
>> Most ligature work with this setting, but
>>
>> ch ck ct ij IJ sp ss st
>>     
>
>   Those ligatures are usually not part of the liga feature that only activates
> the most common f-ligatures; try dlig (discretionary ligatures), or maybe hlig
> (historical ligatures), although it's more probably the former.
>
>   
>> Is there a way to manually select the ligatures of a font?
>>     
>
>   You can use a feature file to define your own OpenType features that would
> only activates the ligatures of your choice and associate it with a name, say
> plig for "Peter's ligatures" (rlig is already used for "required ligatures" in
> scripts like Arabic, better not to overwrite it).  See
> fonts/fea/context/texhistoric.fea in the ConTeXt distribution for how it's done
> for tlig (which is not a standard OpenType feature either).  Send it to Hans
> when you're over, so that he can use it too because he's been traumatised by
> the st and ct ligatures :-)
>
>   
:))

will do so

I have found the 'dlig'-feature in the font, but activating this feature 
doesn't work here.

Thanks Arthur and Thomas!

Best wishes,  Peter

> 	Arthur
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