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From: <denis.maier@ub.unibe.ch>
To: <ntg-context@ntg.nl>, <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: Questions regarding \startexceptions and ligature prevention
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 11:26:20 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <58c2368ac02c4d5093b3050332384b21@ub.unibe.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ec68ed95a74f48a592b6df5ee8827111@ub.unibe.ch>

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: ntg-context <ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl> Im Auftrag von
> denis.maier@ub.unibe.ch
> Gesendet: Montag, 22. März 2021 12:12
> An: j.hagen@xs4all.nl
> Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl
> Betreff: Re: [NTG-context] Questions regarding \startexceptions and ligature
> prevention
> 
> > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> > Von: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>
> > Gesendet: Montag, 22. März 2021 11:28
> > An: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>; Maier, Denis
> > Christian (UB) <denis.maier@ub.unibe.ch>
> > Betreff: Re: [NTG-context] Questions regarding \startexceptions and
> > ligature prevention
> >
> > On 3/22/2021 10:33 AM, denis.maier@ub.unibe.ch wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > there's this rather new mechanism for preventing ligatures:
> > >
> > > \startexceptions[de]
> > >
> > > au{f-}{f}{ff}(f\zwnj f)asse
> > >
> > > au{f-}{f}{ff}(f\zwnj f)asste
> > >
> > > \stopexceptions
> > >
> > > Two questions:
> > >
> > >  1. Can you have multiple \startexceptions[de] environments ? Will they
> > >     accumulate ? (I'm thinking about preparing a general list of
> > >     exceptions, but of course you will also want individual
> > > exceptions.)
> >
> > you can find out by trying ...
> 
> Ok, it does...
> 

Regarding the plan of preparing a list of suppressed ligatures: It seems possible to provide a word list that could just be included with input. OTOH, you'll have to include correct hyphenation for all the words in the list. Is it possible to only define the correct ligature handling in such a list without having to supply hyphenation rules as well?

Denis
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  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-22 11:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-22  9:33 denis.maier
2021-03-22 10:28 ` Hans Hagen
2021-03-22 11:11   ` denis.maier
2021-03-22 11:26     ` denis.maier [this message]
2021-03-22 11:47     ` Hans Hagen
2021-03-22 11:57       ` denis.maier

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