On 8/19/2021 5:00 PM, Robert wrote:
Hans has replied off-list, saying that this is basically expected behaviour and that checking for ligatures by means of \lastnodetype is inherently unreliable in luatex. In that case I would suggest to change the wording in the manual, which quite unequivocally claims the opposite:
| The \lastnodetype primitive is 𝜀-TEX compliant. The valid range is | still [−1, 15] and glyph nodes (formerly known as char nodes) have | number 0 while ligature nodes are mapped to 7. That way macro packages | can use the same symbolic names as in traditional 𝜀-TEX. (p.123)
this is correct .. it doesn't say that the nodelist is the same and in fact luatex does report the right node in etex speak .. in the case of luatex there is no ligature node because the nodelist isn't processed and even then it could as well be a disc node (and if it is aligature you cannot assume that the font handler used sets the ligature subtype either) just don't assume that luatex, pdftex, xetex produce the same node lists and don't assume that f + i is a ligature in each font (or script / language) either because it can as wel be some kerning between f (either or not substituted) and i (either or not substituted) in luatex when you want to mess around at that level you have to use a callback (or preprocess the input) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------