{ligatures} occur where two or more graphemes are joined as a single glyph.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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:
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