From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: "Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد" <ishamid@colostate.edu>
Subject: Re: Breaking ligatures
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 21:22:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <514A1A87.4090403@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.wt9g2tq3pw6hmh@ishamid-pc>
On 3/20/2013 9:12 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote:
> Dear Knights,
>
> What is the canonical way to break a ligature in MkIV? The canonical TeX
> way, e.g.
>
> f{}i
that's more a side effect of the old engine where lig building happened
interwoven with the parser (optimization) while in luatex this is nicely
separated (cleaner) you can put a kern in between but then of course you
wont get kerning with the other chars
> does not work if the feature liga=yes.
>
> The zero-width joiner or non-joiner will do it but that seems ad hoc or
> abusive ;-) since those are really for cursive scripts like Arabic and
> Syriac.
quite a claim ... afaik devanagari also needs them
anyhow, just don't enable ligatures if in doubt (some fonts have
language dependent ligatures) ... it's somewhat arbitrary to have only
'f' related ligs anyway
Hans
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2013-03-20 20:12 Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2013-03-20 20:22 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2013-03-20 20:45 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2013-03-20 20:22 ` Wolfgang Schuster
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