On Sun, 18 Sep 2011, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

>
> Am 18.09.2011 um 03:13 schrieb Aditya Mahajan:
>
>> On Sun, 18 Sep 2011, Khaled Hosny wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 08:02:43PM -0400, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
>>>> In MkII, one can disable ligatures by inserting {} at the
>>>> appropriate place. For example `self{}ish` disables the ligature
>>>> between f and i. What is the equivalent way to disable ligatures in
>>>> MkIV?
>>>
>>> Inserting a empty box? self\null ish seems to work.
>>
>> \null works but it disable hyphenation.
>>
>>> The "Unicode way"
>>> would be inserting U+200C (ZWNJ)
>>
>> Thank you. This works perfectly.

Actually it does not. The word cannot hypenate wher \zwnj is inserted.

> When you don’t mind the extra space you can use “|*|”.

This works well. But why is the * discretionary defined to insert the 
extra 0.05em space? (I can overwrite it in my document, but I just curious 
about the reason for the original definition).

Aditya