disabling ligatures in selected words

disabling ligatures in selected words

[Thomas A. Schmitz]

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?

Thanks

Thomas
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Re: disabling ligatures in selected words

[Aditya Mahajan]

On Fri, 23 Oct 2015, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:

> 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?

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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Re: disabling ligatures in selected words

[Wolfgang Schuster]

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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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Re: disabling ligatures in selected words

[Thomas A. Schmitz]

On 23.10.2015 21:09, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> 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


Aditya, Wolfgang,

thank you both - both solutions look great and now I remember having 
seen the thread that Wolfgang linked to. Will try both of them!

Thanks and all best

Thomas
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Re: disabling ligatures in selected words

[Jan U. Hasecke]

Hi Thomas,

Am 23.10.2015 um 21:23 schrieb Thomas A. Schmitz:
> On 23.10.2015 21:09, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>> 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
> 
> 
> Aditya, Wolfgang,
> 
> thank you both - both solutions look great and now I remember having
> seen the thread that Wolfgang linked to. Will try both of them!
> 

Did you suceed? Where and how did you set the options?

I cannot get these solutions to work with my xml input file.

juh

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