Could you please share a complete MWE. Makes it easier to test if the problem occurs here as well. Best, Denis Von: ntg-context Im Auftrag von Thangalin via ntg-context Gesendet: Montag, 6. Juni 2022 23:56 An: Bruce Horrocks Cc: Thangalin ; mailing list for ConTeXt users Betreff: Re: [NTG-context] Contractions in ligature suppression word list Thanks for the response, Bruce. 1) The file you attached doesn't include the word "wolfing", nor "wolfin". I assume they need to be The suffixes section accounts for this. Wolfing and wolfish both suppress the ligature correctly. I removed the comma separators, good catch. No difference, though. Looks like I edited /opt/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/patterns/mkxl/lang-en.llg instead of the LMTX file. SMH. I've now tried both files, lmtx and mkxl: suffixes = [[ in in' in’ ing ]], Wolfish works fine, the ligature is suppressed as expected. Wolfing, wolfin, and wolfin' aren't suppressed. I'd have thought that defining the word "wolf" with a suffix of "ing" (and variations thereof) would suppress ligatures at the suffix boundary? Maybe that's not the case. If so, then it means having to define all the *f-ing words (heh) a few times for the different suffixes (in', in’, and ing), which seems to defeat the purpose of separating suffixes? Help is appreciated.

A somewhat more complete testfile with a couple of options is below. My context installation is not current so please double check, but I think it boils down to this: apostrophes seem not to be considered to be part of a word. Once I enable wolfin under \startlanguageoptions[en] it will disable the fi-ligature everywhere below, but adding the word variants with an apostroph doesn’t do anything, neither to the explicit wordlist under startlanguageoptions, nor in one of the additional goodies files. Denis Von: Thangalin Gesendet: Dienstag, 7. Juni 2022 02:14 An: Maier, Denis Christian (UB) Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users ; Bruce Horrocks Betreff: Re: [NTG-context] Contractions in ligature suppression word list Here's a short example (version 2022.05.11 11:36): \setuplanguage[en][goodies={lang-en.llg}] \starttext % Expected: no ligature; actual: as expected wolfish % Expected: no ligatures; actual: ligature wolfing wolfin' wolfin’ \stoptext %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \startluacode -- Testfile for fi ligature over suffix boundary local testoversuffixboundary = { name = "test-over-suffix-boundary", options = { { patterns = {fi = "f|i",}, words = [[ wolf ]], suffixes = [[ in' in’ ]], }, }, } -- Testfile for fi ligature in word with apostroph local testwithsuffix = { name = "test-with-suffix", options = { { patterns = {fi = "f|i",}, words = [[ wolfin' wolfin’ ]], }, }, } -- which table do we want to test? -- table.save("test.llg",testoversuffixboundary) table.save("test",testwithsuffix) \stopluacode \setuplanguage[en][goodies={lang-en.llg,test.llg}] % explicit suppression \startlanguageoptions[en] wolf|in' % this here doesn't do anything wolf|in’ % this here doesn't do anything either %wolf|in % this here disables the fi ligature across the board for all the words below \stoplanguageoptions \mainlanguage[en] \starttext % defined in lang-en.llg => works wolfish wolfing % Expected: no ligatures; actual: ligature wolfin' wolfin’ % shibboleth wolfin \stoptext