From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Problem with ConTeXt (MkIV), Hebrew and ligatures
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2012 22:52:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <506A027E.8070305@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121001201808.GD5059@phlegethon.router_intern>
On 1-10-2012 22:18, Philipp Gesang wrote:
> ···<date: 2012-10-01, Monday>···<from: Hans Hagen>···
>
>> On 1-10-2012 19:25, Philipp Gesang wrote:
>>
>>>> utilities.sequencers.disableaction(resolvers.openers.helpers.textfileactions,"characters.filters.utf.collapse")
>>>
>>> Doesn’t work. What helps is to comment out the “appendaction” in
>>> char-utf.lua or the corresponding table for U0xfb35 in
>>> char-def.lua. My guess is that this is the case because the .tex
>>> file is processed *before* you can disable it.
>>
>> so we need a directive (as they can be given on the commandline)
>
> Yes, I think so, too. Btw. according to this faq:
>
> http://www.unicode.org/faq/ligature_digraph.html#Pf1
>
> these are not normalizations but in fact some kind of
> second-class ligatures that the unicode people seem to grudgingly
> keep around for compatibility reasons (like with precombined
> Greek). Is it really wise to have them enabled by default?
most is controlled by char-def.lua and arbitrary disabling some is
confusing I guess (btw, for special purposes one could add non-joiners
in between)
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-01 20:52 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
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 [this message]
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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