From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Simo Ojala <smsojala@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Problem with ConTeXt (MkIV), Hebrew and ligatures
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 10:46:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <506563FE.9040607@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5064A89F.6030402@gmail.com>
On 27-9-2012 21:27, Simo Ojala wrote:
> This is a problem originally posted in TeX/StackExchange. However, since
> I have not had any luck in finding a solution I post it here too. I am
> confident that somebody here should know the answer.
>
>
> http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/73970/problem-with-context-mkiv-hebrew-and-ligatures
>
>
> "Since I last played with the latest ConTeXt MkIV, there has been
> introduced this new feature. It now seems to combine Hebrew characters
> automatically when possible to ligatures. So for example. If I have a
> word with following two characters:
>
> U+05D5 (HEBREW LETTER VAV)
> U+05BC (HEBREW POINT DAGESH OR MAPIQ)
>
> ConTeXt will combine these to:
>
> U+FB35 (HEBREW LETTER VAV WITH DAGESH)
>
> However, I would need to disable this feature for a number of reasons.
> For example, this breaks my little database query, because the query key
> is changed before(?) macro gets it.
>
> So if somebody would know how to turn this off and maybe also that what
> has changed."
It depends on the font ... normally you can disable this by *not* using
the mark and mkmk features
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-28 8:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-27 19:27 Simo Ojala
2012-09-28 8:46 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2012-09-28 23:41 ` Simo Ojala
2012-09-29 11:35 ` Hans Hagen
2012-10-01 15:16 ` Simo Ojala
2012-10-01 16:23 ` Philipp Gesang
2012-10-01 16:43 ` Hans Hagen
2012-10-01 17:25 ` Philipp Gesang
2012-10-01 17:39 ` Hans Hagen
2012-10-01 20:18 ` Philipp Gesang
2012-10-01 20:52 ` Hans Hagen
2012-10-08 18:51 ` Simo Ojala
2012-10-08 19:10 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-10-10 0:17 ` Simo Ojala
2012-10-10 7:36 ` Sietse Brouwer
2012-10-11 0:52 ` Simo Ojala
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