{ligatures} occur where two or more graphemes are joined as a single glyph.
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1answer
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Activating ligatures with typescript in ConTeXt (MkIV)
I've have the following example where i try to enable ligatures for the font Kaffeesatz
\definefontfeature[yanone-default][mode=node, kern=yes, liga=yes, dlig=yes]
\starttypescript [sans] [yanone] ...
6
votes
1answer
372 views
Switching off ligatures in LuaLaTeX
In order to switch off ligatures for a whole document using LuaLaTeX, I put the following lines into the preamble:
\usepackage{fontspec}
\defaultfontfeatures{Ligatures={NoRequired, NoCommon, ...
7
votes
1answer
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Ligatures in figures and pdftex
In the following example, the 'ff' ligature in the figure labels (in 'differential') disappears when pdflatex is used, but the fault does not occur if latex-dvips-ps2pdf is used instead. Both lualatex ...
45
votes
1answer
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Small-caps, old-style numbers, and some ligatures produce odd symbols in PDF copy text?
This is a problem I've had consistently with XeLaTeX. Here's a small example:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont[Ligatures=TeX,Numbers={OldStyle,Proportional}]{Minion Pro}
...
14
votes
4answers
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How to suppress the operation of a luatex-defined macro on a string if the string is part of macro or a label
I'm working towards creating a lualatex-based package that lets users automatically suppress the use of ligatures (for now, ff, fi, fl, ffi, ffl, and ft) for selected words. (For background see this ...
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votes
2answers
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ligature with special characters: fī
I am using a lot of special characters such as ā, ī, ū, š, ṣ, ḥ, ḫ and so on. I just spotted that sometimes this causes problems with ligatures for example the fi-ligature, if the dot on the i is a ...
25
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1answer
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In lualatex, hyphenation doesn't seem to work for words that contain certain ligatures
It would seem that hyphenation does not work properly under LuaLaTeX if the hyphenation points occur at places where TeX inserts ligatures. Consider the following MWE, which (i) provides hyphenation ...
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votes
3answers
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Ligatures: why “fi”, but not “fj” as well?
My university name is "FJFI", with e-mail/web addresses containing lowercase "fjfi". Then "fi" gets ligatured whereas "fj" does not, and the result looks a bit strange. My question is, which ...
4
votes
1answer
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Using ligatures as Unicode
I use TeX Live. See my example:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\begin{document}
Check ligatures: first % here I have ligature for "fi"
\end{document}
...
20
votes
2answers
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Ligature suppression with proper hyphenation and comprehensive word list?
[Update: It's been pointed out that my question(s) here weren't clear (or were too hidden). So I inserted red stars at the points where the questions appear.]
In The TeX Book, D.E.K. gives "shelfful" ...
5
votes
3answers
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How to make the rmligs script available globally on Windows?
Hopefully on-topic as about "(La)TeX related software and tools"
I just learned about the rmligs script. Since it isn't available through MiKTeX (and neither through TeX Live), I downloaded the ...
23
votes
4answers
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Any suggestions/requests for features for a new package that allows disabling ligatures for (pre)selected words?
I'm starting to put together a LaTeX package, which I hope to distribute broadly, that
provides lualatex code to disable ligation of character pairs and triplets for selected words (globally within ...
8
votes
4answers
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How do I prevent LaTeX from creating en-dash and em-dash?
All over the internet, there's this question on how to make LaTeX do the en-dash and em-dash.
I have the opposite problem. I have some text from which I am generating HTML and LaTeX outputs. The ...
23
votes
2answers
502 views
Porting the luatex/ConTeXt module “translate” to lualatex
In this question, which I posted a few weeks ago to TeX Stack Exchange, I asked how one should go about disabling specific ligatures (such as ff, fi, fl, and ffl) automatically for a list of ...
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votes
1answer
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babel shorthand "| doesn't work in macros
The package babel with the ngerman option (and most other languages as well, but not english) provides the shorthand "|, which prevents a ligature at the given position (see p. 81 of the babel ...
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votes
3answers
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XeLaTeX fontspec Century Gothic not using ligatures
I'm trying to use my Century Gothic TrueType font in a document, but it's failing to use the fl and fi ligatures. The input's below:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xltxtra}
...
19
votes
1answer
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Placing the un-ligatured text in the OCR layer
I was reading Why can't "fi" be separated when being copied from a compiled pdf? and had a thought:
I know that v1.4 and up PDF documents have an OCR layer. Would it be possible to have ...
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votes
3answers
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Why can't “fi” be separated when being copied from a compiled pdf?
I notice that in a pdf file compiled from Latex, "fi" such as in "field" cannot be separated as "f" and "i" when copying text out of the pdf file. I wonder why and if this can be changed? Thanks and ...
13
votes
2answers
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Easily assign undefined ligatures with pdfLaTeX?
Ulrike Fischer showed how Linux Libertine's special ligatures are accessible. Even though she also pointed me at a chapter of the LaTeX Graphics Companion, I'm not really sure how to get these ...
33
votes
2answers
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Can one (more or less) automatically suppress ligatures for certain words?
One of the major attractions -- for me at least -- of typesetting my papers in (La)TeX is its automated and fully transparent use of typographic ligatures. However, as Knuth pointed out in the ...
5
votes
3answers
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Controlling fontspec to use certain font features for different fonts in one document
I'm using the font Fontin to prepare a document and have come across a problem when using the discretionary ligatures. The regular font supports the discretionary ligatures, but the bold and italic ...
7
votes
1answer
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Plain text for cut and pasting, ligatures for viewing (or, disabling ligatures)
One reason I switched to Xelatex was that I was interested in being able to create fully unicode documents (I'm a linguist, and often have linguistic symbols as well as Arabic text in my documents) ...
3
votes
0answers
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Ligatures not formed when using MinionPro with Inconsolata [closed]
I use Minion in a document via the MinionPro package, and now I want to use Inconsolata for, amongst other things, code listings. When I include the fontenc package with the T1 option for ...
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votes
3answers
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How to enable ligatures for emdash/endash in LuaTeX ?
I cannot switch on ligatures for emdash (---) and endash (--) in LuaLaTeX. Here is my test file:
% !Mode:: "TeX:UTF-8"
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
...
12
votes
1answer
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Use Libertine's discretionary and historical ligatures with pdfTeX
I know XeTeX can easily turn on and off Linux Libertine's different sets of ligatures as described in the Manual for
Linux Libertine with XeTeX, but is there a way to use the discretionary or the ...
0
votes
1answer
372 views
'fi' or 'fl' result in big “S”-like symbol
I use LyX with XeTeX, and the output font is DejaVu Sans. When I write in the input text 'fi' or 'fl', the output text displays a strange big "S"-like symbol. I don't know why is that. Any help would ...
3
votes
1answer
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Ligatures not shown
Even though there's a number of topics on here concerning the subject, it still doesn't work here.
An example like:
\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{fontspec,graphicx,xltxtra}
...
3
votes
2answers
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Hoefler Text Extended Ligatures and XeTeX
I'm using XeTeX (MacTex 2010, Mac OSX 10.6) to render a document in Apple Hoefler Text. However, although I can make it render common ligatures, such as fi and ffi, I can't seem to be able to force it ...
5
votes
4answers
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Output hyphen as en-dash in macro
In my thesis I will include a fair number of tags (morphological tags, in case it matters) that are fixed-width character strings like this: ab-c--d, where dashes denote NULL fields. I'd like to ...
11
votes
5answers
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LaTeX font for 18th century English
I am busy typesetting a book for guntenberg.org and I would like to keep as far as possible close to the original style. The book was written in 1787. Here is an extract.
Is there a similar font ...
5
votes
1answer
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Fix ligature mapping of obscure old font with LuaLaTeX or XeLaTeX
I have an old font I purchased a while ago. It comes with various ligatures that I need to use. The font was not intended for use with LaTeX, and even though it is a high-quality Type-1 font, the ...
2
votes
2answers
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Ligatures with Century Schoolbook L in xetex [Ubuntu]
I don't get any ligatures, like the fi ligature.
I'm using:
URW Century Schoolbook L (afai can determine anyway)
XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.9995.2 (TeX Live 2009/Debian)
Ubuntu 10.04
This is ...
13
votes
3answers
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Ligatures in Hoefler with XeTeX?
Using XeLaTeX on OS X 10.6 (texlive installed with MacPorts) I'm not getting any ligatures with Hoefler.
Example code:
\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\usepackage{fontspec,xltxtra}
...
32
votes
1answer
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Make ligatures in Linux Libertine copyable (and searchable)
I'm currently working on an essay written in LaTeX form. I'm facing problems with ligatures - in my pdf output (rendered using pdftex) opened in Adobe Reader I get X's and V's when copy-pasting words ...
7
votes
2answers
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Triple f-ligatures for urw-garamond
I am setting the following in my preamble:
\usepackage[urw-garamond]{mathdesign}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
I find that the ffi and ffl ligatures aren't available in urw-garamond.
As advised in this ...
5
votes
1answer
478 views
Specifying undefined ligatures with XeTeX
When I started to play with XeTeX, I noticed, that some of the True Type fonts does not produces the standard five ligatures properly (fi, fl, ff, ffi, ffl), even if they have some of the proper ...
21
votes
3answers
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How can I completely suppress ligatures?
The microtype package allows to completely suppress ligatures. However, this feature requires pdfTeX 1.30 or newer. That's unfortunate if I'm using LaTeX or XeLaTeX while having to avoid ligatures.
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