Re: Ligatured characters

From: Michael Everson (everson@egt.ie)
Date: Fri Sep 15 2000 - 08:32:38 EDT


Ar 03:56 -0800 2000-09-15, scríobh Roozbeh Pournader:
>On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Otto Stolz wrote:
>
>> I have re-read section "Controlling Ligatures", in TUC 3.0, p. 318.
>> Now, I interpret the wording, and fig. 13-2, so that I would have to
>> code, e. g., German "Auflage"
>> as "A" "u" "f" ZWJ ZWNJ ZWJ "l" "a" "g" "e":
>> the ZWNJ to forbid the incorrect f-l ligature, and the two ZWJs
>> to provide the correct cursive connectivity, just in case my text
>> would be rendered with a cursive font. Is this correct?

I am not sure about the cursive connectivity. In general I would separate
Auf- from -lage witha soft hyphen.

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