Fontforge shows no ligatures for Adobe Garamond; however, it does show ligatures for the Tallys fonts. So that probably explains why there are no ligatures. However, the font has a lot of kerning pairs, but I don't seem to be able turn those on/off with the \definefontfeature directive as I could do in the Tallys font. And back to the original problem, en dash, em dash, quotes that work in other fonts don't work here. I can use \emdash, \endash, \quotesingle, etc., but this creates more work when you get text from an author and is more prone to error. So is this a font problem? Or is this something I'm doing wrong (and what)? Thanks once again, Bart On Friday 21 November 2008 10:00:14 am Mojca Miklavec wrote:
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 5:47 PM, Bart C. Wise wrote:
I think the error I got was not having enough sleep :-) because I worked on it this morning and it's working. I'll tack on my current file below. The font features does not seem to make any difference. However, I took the same typescript and modified it for the Tallys font and I can turn ligatures on/off, kerning on/off, etc. But the same typescript for the Adobe Garamond does not work, I'm perplexed and a bit frustrated.
I'm not sure if we're talking about the same problem, but I remember that I had to try *all* different variants of Garamond when I needed fi ligature and only a single font had the proper weight and that ligature (I ended up using ITCGaramondStd-Lt and ITCGaramondStd-LtIta after wasting way too much time trying to figure out what was wrong).
Did you check if the desired ligatures are available at all in the font you are using?
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