AF>or is it more typical that each ligature is it's own little
style run.
I wouldn't necessarily expect each ligature to have its own
(i.e. individual) style run. In general, it's more likely that
the font vendor has created the font to support varying levels
of ligatures, and the user specifies a particular level of
ligation for an entire paragraph or larger run of text,
possible the entire document. So rather than
in<EON>fl</EON>uence
you'd have something like
<styles>
<normal font=... ligation_level=1... >
...
</styles>
<body style=normal>... influence ... </body>
Of course, in a case of non-predictable, obligatory, semantic
ligation (e.g. "wachstube" on the assumption it is all three of
these in Fraktur - I don't recall having yet heard from anyone
if it's obligatory, and it seems there's some recent discussion
as to whether it might be predictable), use of document-wide
defaults ligation settings isn't adequate, and in that case
some ligatures would require their own style runs to either
enable or disable ligation.
But, it would not normally be the case that each ligature has
its own style run.
Peter
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