Re: [NTG-context] Dumb question about ligatures

On 2 Oct 2021, at 00:46, Hans Hagen wrote:

On 10/2/2021 12:35 AM, Bruce Horrocks via ntg-context wrote:

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On 21 Sep 2021, at 02:47, Bruce Horrocks via ntg-context wrote:

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I'm using a TTF file that has no ligature capability as a built-in feature. It does however have glyphs for fi and fl but ConTeXt isn't substituting them.

So the question is: what do I need to do to persuade ConTeXt to do fi & fl ligature substitution?

Any suggestions please? Is a font features file the 'right' way? I would have thought that there was a more traditional solution you can write your own feature (examplex in test suite and manuals) where you map f + f onto ff

Thanks Hans - I keep forgetting about the test suite. For the benefit of those coming here via the mail archive, I found what I needed in the cont-tst.zip test suite in the file fonts/extensions-001.tex http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/latest/cont-tst.zip Now my problem is that the font only has ligatures for fi and fl which is making my life di-ffi-cult. <groan> — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK