Re: [NTG-context] Character names

Mojca Miklavec wrote:

I thought so. But the issue is not a matter of font designers, but of underlying software. If TeX can't "unget" a character and replace it with the accented one, you can't ask font designers to add dozens of ligatures. Knuth didn't write TeX with Unicode conventions in mind, so I can understand that, I only wonder if XeTeX, Aleph [and exTeX] support such accents.

Inside the TFM file, it is fairly straightforward to instruct TeX to create a ligature from "a" followed by "`" to "à". That is a job for texfont or fontinst, not the font designers'. But it qualifies as a hack, not true unicode support. Anyway, no point spending time on it if nobody is going to use it. Cheers, Taco