From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: disabling ligatures in selected words
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 14:57:19 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.20.1510231453460.22171@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <562A819F.5050404@uni-bonn.de>
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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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 [this message]
2015-10-23 19:09 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2015-10-23 19:23 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2016-01-12 14:37 ` Jan U. Hasecke
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