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12 May
2003
12 May
'03
3:41 p.m.
"Adam Lindsay"
So, am I right in concluding that ligatures are *only* handled by the output routine?
The ligatures defined by the font are handled by the paragraph breaking routine. Deep down inside the lion. The "output routine" (OTR) is something different.
There's no way of using ConTeXt to map my normal text input ('i' followed by 'j') to the already-defined \ijligature?
In order to parse the text so that ij is mapped to \ijligature, you probably have to make the "i" active and check if the next char is "j" and if yes, replace it with \ijligature. Don't think about it. Patrick