Re: ligatures?

[Patrick Gundlach <pg@levana.de>]

"Adam Lindsay" <atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk> writes:

Hello Adam,

I am not a TeX expert, but I try to give an answer. Please anybody
out there correct me. 

> So, am I right in concluding that ligatures are *only* handled by the
> output routine? 

The ligatures defined by the font are handled by the paragraph
breaking routine. Deep down inside the lion. The "output routine"
(OTR) is something different.

> There's no way of using ConTeXt to map my normal text input ('i'
> followed by 'j') to the already-defined \ijligature?

In order to parse the text so that ij is mapped to \ijligature, you
probably have to make the "i" active and check if the next char is
"j" and if yes, replace it with \ijligature. Don't think about it.


Patrick