From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: disabling ligatures in selected words
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 21:09:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <562A85E4.7080306@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.20.1510231453460.22171@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva>
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> Aditya Mahajan <mailto:adityam@umich.edu>
> 23. Oktober 2015 um 20:57
> On Fri, 23 Oct 2015, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
>
>
> This has been asked on tex stackexchange. One option is to use the
> translate module:
>
> http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/37465/323
> http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/28746/323
>
> Aditya
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> Thomas A. Schmitz <mailto:thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de>
> 23. Oktober 2015 um 20:51
> Hi,
>
> in German typography, ligatures are disabled at boundaries between
> what used to be independent words (Wortfugen). Thusly, in a correct
> German text, you'd find
>
> Anflug (with fl-ligature) but
>
> Auf|lage (without ligature).
>
> I know that I can prevent a ligature with something like Auf\/lage or
> even Auf|*|lage. However, I typeset from xml and would much rather
> have a general solution so I can leave my generated xml files alone.
> Something like a list where I could list "ligature exceptions" the way
> we have a file with hyphenation exceptions. Is anything like this
> possible?
Take a look at the new replacement mechanism (lang-rep.mkiv):
- http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2015/083044.html
- http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2015/083034.html
Wolfgang
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-23 19:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-23 18:51 Thomas A. Schmitz
2015-10-23 18:57 ` Aditya Mahajan
2015-10-23 19:09 ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2015-10-23 19:23 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2016-01-12 14:37 ` Jan U. Hasecke
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