{ligatures} occur where two or more graphemes are joined as a single glyph.
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Cannot copy text from the simplest PDF file?
Consider the following code:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
We define multiplication by
$$v_1x = 0,\quad v_2x = v_1,\quad v_1y = -v_1,\quad v_2y = v_1$$
\end{document}
which looks ...
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luatex 0.76 failed to generate some ligatures [closed]
I installed texlive 2013 today. After installation, luatex cannot generate ligatures for "fi fl ff", but it can for `` '' ---. xetex works perfectly here, after update.
MWE:
\documentclass{article}
...
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Xelatex beamer Calibri: how to suppress unwanted ligatures [duplicate]
Solution:
\setsansfont[Ligatures={NoRequired,NoCommon,NoContextual}]{Calibri}
I'm no typographer, therefore I didn't know the techinical terms, but this Wikipedia article describes it: ...
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Change the way XeTeX sees a string before running/building PDF
For some reason, I'm really struggling to articulate my question, so let me apologise in advance. I may not be approaching this from the right angle.
I'm working in XeTeX (and it's far too late to ...
2
votes
0answers
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\pdfglyphtounicode with XeTeX
One well known problem with using the font Linux Libertine (presumably other fonts too), is that its many ligatures are not recognized in the resulting pdf-file, so that it's not possible to search ...
3
votes
1answer
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How I can add my own language [closed]
I wrote an artificial language (conlang).
What I can add my own language in LaTeX? Conlang has more letters than English (utf8 and some ligatures) and specyfic hyphenations.
Where is simple/minimal ...
3
votes
0answers
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Combining mark over ligature (Devanagari)
I want to typeset the combination m̐llo in Devanagari with XeLaTeX.
When I use the correct Unicode ल्ँलो, there is no ligature of the ls.
When I place the candrabindu on the ligature the o is not ...
10
votes
1answer
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biblatex translation with wrong ligature
I'm playing around with biblatex at the moment. It works nice, but there is a problem with a translation of "Ed." (edition) to "Aufl." (Auflage). The translation is correct but it has a wrong ligature ...
11
votes
1answer
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Should I use the font encoding LY1 with the package libertine?
I normally use \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} without giving it any thought. The package libertine seems to provide more ligatures with the LY1 encoding.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{libertine}
...
14
votes
2answers
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Difference between {} and \/ for breaking ligatures
The Guide to LaTeX (4th ed.) states that \/ is used to break up ligatures (p. 30 and p. 469), which I thought was standardly done with {}. As \/ is normally known to insert an italic correction (see ...
10
votes
3answers
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Which ligatures do the fonts used in my document offer?
This is a follow-up question to: How do I know which ligatures are used in my document?
In order to know which ligatures I might consider disabling (I have in mind microtype's \DisableLigatures ...
7
votes
1answer
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How do I know which ligatures are used in my document?
In order to know which ligatures I might consider disabling, I would like to know which ones are actually used in my document. (Which ligatures are provided by a font is a more general question; I ...
4
votes
2answers
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Removing ligatures when using fontspec
This is a follow-up question to Currency symbol: French franc.
Consider the following code:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{siunitx}
\DeclareRobustCommand*{\myfranc}{%
...
6
votes
1answer
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Deciding Which Glyphs to Use in Font Encoding
I wanted to use one of my favorite fonts, Crimson, while still maintaining full support from the microtype package. Since XeTeX and LuaTeX are not fully supported by the microtype package (as of ...
3
votes
0answers
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Why is there a word boundary in “ßv”?
I have made a blackletter font (http://www.linta.de/Jena1330, although this may instead be a generic thing, which just usually does not show up due to absence of initial and final replacements) for ...
0
votes
0answers
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adobe arabic font does not render ligatures with arabxetex
If I set a font to another font, say, \newfontfamily\arabicfont[Script=Arabic]{Adobe Naskh Medium}, the results are fine regardless of whether I input the text in ascii or use arabic characters:
...
3
votes
1answer
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Constructing general ligatures
I know that LaTeX has macros \ae, \oe etc. for the standard ligatures (i.e. æ, œ).
Is there a more general way to construct ligatures in the equation environment?
I'm working in the language of ...
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vote
0answers
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Chartwell fonts and changing colour with ligatures
Bit of a niche question. There is a beautiful set of TrueType fonts called Chartwell designed for producing graphs from text.
I am trying to get these to work in Latex.
I have switched to Xe(La)tex, ...
6
votes
1answer
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Activating fi and fl ligatures with fontspec for Berling font
I have a font named Berling containing fi and fl ligatures on glyph 109 and 110. How can I activate these with lualatex? For the moment I am trying:
\documentclass[a4paper]{memoir}
...
26
votes
8answers
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A ligature for she/he
A Compulsory Edit For Everyone Who Wonders About Its Usage : OK I'm using this s/he thing quite a few times in the thesis and since ⚧ (transgender unicode symbol) is even in the list, I thought this ...
4
votes
1answer
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How does one make two characters active?
In russian babel, it's possible to write << to get a russian opening quote character. However, some fonts that have such character (like the one provided by anttor package) don't use that and ...
7
votes
2answers
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Linux Libertine ligatures / T1
The libertine package documentation says
It is recommended that the font encoding be set to T1 or LY1 but the default OT1 encoding is also supported.
\documentclass{article}
% ...
6
votes
3answers
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Can ligatures be enabled for Palatino and pdflatex?
Can I enable ligatures for the Palatino font or can I somehow find out if they are in the package for pdflatex in the first place?
Edit: MWE
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{mathpazo}
...
22
votes
1answer
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How to automatically adjust the emdash length according to current language?
In Russian typography the emdash, which is typed as the ligature --- in LaTeX, is 20% shorter than the standard emdash. The babel package cares this difference so that --- prints a shorter emdash if ...
33
votes
1answer
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How to suppress a “Rare” ligature that pre-empts a “Common” ligature for the same character pair?
In several documents I'm creating with LuaLaTeX (using MacTeX2012 on a Mac that's running MacOS X 10.7.5), I primarily use the Adobe-issued font Garamond Premier Pro as the main text font. I use this ...
6
votes
2answers
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Problem of Arabic numbers in math mode with 'New TX' math font option [Libertine] compiled by XeLaTeX
Recently i decided to use the Libertine font to write my dissertation, because finally there is kinda math font for Libertine: \usepackage[libertine]{newtxmath}. Since I want to enable of the ...
9
votes
2answers
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How to make page numbering with ligature roman style?
I use roman page number for front matter, I was just wondering, is it possible to make these roman numbers as ligature?
See.
Roman:
and
roman:
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votes
1answer
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Possible to enable historical Ligatures of Libertine font in Ubuntu system?
I searched all of related posts but it seems that there is no solution in this case.
I really wann activate the feature of historical Ligatures of Libertine font e.g:
In Ubuntu system is it ...
5
votes
1answer
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'r' rendered improperly in Devanagari ligature [closed]
Have bumped into a LaTeX-specific problem (on my current system at least) in typesetting Devanagari: 'r' in conjunct consonants such as 'ntrya' does not render properly (e.g., as न्त्र्य, see image ...
12
votes
1answer
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Insert negative kern before “Y” in Calabi-Yau
Some pairs of glyphs look more visually appealing when a kern is inserted between the glyphs. For instance, if the word Calabi–Yau is typeset with a font that does not include kerning information for ...
11
votes
1answer
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Can we make ligatures copy-and-pastable?
Is there a straightforward way to make ligatures more copy-and-pastable? I know that by using
\usepackage[t1]{fontenc}
that many glyphs like accented and umlauted characters become ...
8
votes
2answers
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Suppression of a ligature in XeLaTeX
I'm trying to reproduce an old book with XeLaTeX, and it has the ct ligature but not the st ligature. The Ligatures=Rare option seems to turn either both on or off. Is there a way to select which ...
5
votes
0answers
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System-wide feature file in lualatex
I have a font (Dolly) with f_i and f_l ligatures, which requires a feature file to make them work. Everything works fine using the following:
# dolly.fea
languagesystem DFLT dflt;
languagesystem ...
7
votes
1answer
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Using ligatures from libertine for roman numerals in pdftex
I am using the Linux Libertine font through the libertine-legacy package with pdftex. This font contains nice ligatures for roman numerals, e.g., \LibertineGlyph{tworoman} gives ii. Now I want to use ...
2
votes
0answers
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Dealing with word boundaries in a pl file
I am still trying to get my blackletter font to work with some flavour of LaTeX. I made a lot of progress adapting it to vanilla pdflatex. (Using a perl script that writes the ligatures part for the ...
8
votes
2answers
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How do I customize a LuaLaTeX cmap?
I'm working on a system that uses database content to produce PDFs in a variety of languages. I'm currently working on Armenian.
What we've developed so far uses pdfLaTeX. I made a special encoding ...
2
votes
0answers
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Problem with ConTeXt (MkIV), Hebrew and ligatures
Since I last played with the latest ConTeXt MkIV, there has been introduced this new feature. It now seems to combine Hebrew characters automatically when possible to ligatures. So for example. If I ...
5
votes
1answer
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Libertine's discretionary and historical ligatures with ConTeXt and XeTeX
I would like activate Libertine's discretionary and historical ligatures with ConTeXt and XeTeX compilation.
Currently, I'm using this:
\definetypeface[Libertine][rm][Xserif][Linux Libertine O]
...
13
votes
2answers
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Typesetting an old Latin ligature with pdftex
I am using pdftex (MiKTeX) to typeset snippets of old texts. I am stuck on how to get the ligature that looks like qz in old latin (1526) (but could be some form of que). For example the third word ...
12
votes
1answer
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Can PDF search find words with ligatures in XeLaTeX-documents?
Is there some way allow PDF search to find words with ligatures? I use XeLaTeX.
\documentclass{book}
\begin{document}
Prefix.
\end{document}
In the resulting pdf file, searching for the word ...
7
votes
2answers
307 views
Removing ligatures for small caps in TeX4HT
The Amazon Kindle has a default font which features small caps and ligatures, but not ligatures for small caps. For this reason, when it sees ligatures (even common ones, such as "ff"), it renders them ...
8
votes
1answer
263 views
Disabling selected ligatures with microtype
With a font in T1 encoding, using pdfTeX and the package microtype, I'd like to disable the ligatures for "ff" and "ffi", but keep the ligature for "fi". If I type in the preamble
...
6
votes
3answers
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Incorrect font for ligated glyphs, bold-italics combination, Libertine font
Would appreciate your help with the following code:
\begin{definition}
The \textbf{confidence interval (CI)} for ...
\end{definition}
The problem is that the letters "fi" within the word ...
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vote
0answers
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Problem with fourier package and expert option [closed]
I am compiling some documents using pdfLaTeX and I have installed the expert Type1 files (.pfb and .pfm) for the Adobe Utopia fonts in order to use the fourier package with the expert option, which ...
12
votes
1answer
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Ligature suppression algorithm fails if the word in question contains an Umlaut (dieresis) before the ligature
This is a follow-up posting prompted by Taco Hoekwater's recent excellent answer to a question I posed a few months ago. It concerns the use of the ligature suppression algorithm for words (mainly, ...
25
votes
2answers
549 views
Suppress certain ligatures generally
Whether or not certain ligatures should be used (if available in a font) is a least in theory depending on the language used. For example traditional German texts would not have an "ffl" ligature but ...
2
votes
1answer
229 views
Disable ligatures when using mk4ht to create html
How can I easily disable all ligatures, when converting my LaTex-file to html?
For the html-generation I am using the command-line
mk4ht htlatex file.tex 'xhtml,charset=utf-8' ' -cunihtf -utf8 ...
9
votes
2answers
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Using active characters to swap fonts?
I should probably say in advance that this question is inspired by sheer bloody-mindedness, and also apologize in advance if it's unanswerable or just silly. I've gotten it into my head that when I ...
9
votes
2answers
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pdf files show “fi”, but searching for or copying them does not work
When I pdflatex text containing "fi", e.g. "infinite", the resulting pdf-file looks correct, e.g. "infinite" is shown in the text. But when I search the pdf file for "infinite", 0 occurrences are ...
5
votes
1answer
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Ligatures disabling
I want to disable ligatures when I am typing letters, however, I need '--' to be joined to a long dash. Is it possible to make this?
Now I am avoiding it like this
\usepackage{microtype}
...
