Hi, in German typography, ligatures are disabled at boundaries between what used to be independent words (Wortfugen). Thusly, in a correct German text, you'd find Anflug (with fl-ligature) but Auf|lage (without ligature). I know that I can prevent a ligature with something like Auf\/lage or even Auf|*|lage. However, I typeset from xml and would much rather have a general solution so I can leave my generated xml files alone. Something like a list where I could list "ligature exceptions" the way we have a file with hyphenation exceptions. Is anything like this possible? Thanks Thomas
On Fri, 23 Oct 2015, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
Hi,
in German typography, ligatures are disabled at boundaries between what used to be independent words (Wortfugen). Thusly, in a correct German text, you'd find
Anflug (with fl-ligature) but
Auf| lage (without ligature).
I know that I can prevent a ligature with something like Auf\/lage or even Auf|*|lage. However, I typeset from xml and would much rather have a general solution so I can leave my generated xml files alone. Something like a list where I could list "ligature exceptions" the way we have a file with hyphenation exceptions. Is anything like this possible?
This has been asked on tex stackexchange. One option is to use the translate module: http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/37465/323 http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/28746/323 Aditya
Aditya Mahajan mailto:adityam@umich.edu 23. Oktober 2015 um 20:57 On Fri, 23 Oct 2015, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
This has been asked on tex stackexchange. One option is to use the translate module:
http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/37465/323 http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/28746/323
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in German typography, ligatures are disabled at boundaries between what used to be independent words (Wortfugen). Thusly, in a correct German text, you'd find
Anflug (with fl-ligature) but
Auf|lage (without ligature).
I know that I can prevent a ligature with something like Auf\/lage or even Auf|*|lage. However, I typeset from xml and would much rather have a general solution so I can leave my generated xml files alone. Something like a list where I could list "ligature exceptions" the way we have a file with hyphenation exceptions. Is anything like this possible? Take a look at the new replacement mechanism (lang-rep.mkiv):
- http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2015/083044.html - http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2015/083034.html Wolfgang
On 23.10.2015 21:09, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
Take a look at the new replacement mechanism (lang-rep.mkiv):
- http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2015/083044.html - http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2015/083034.html
Aditya, Wolfgang, thank you both - both solutions look great and now I remember having seen the thread that Wolfgang linked to. Will try both of them! Thanks and all best Thomas
Hi Thomas, Am 23.10.2015 um 21:23 schrieb Thomas A. Schmitz:
On 23.10.2015 21:09, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
Take a look at the new replacement mechanism (lang-rep.mkiv):
- http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2015/083044.html - http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2015/083034.html
Aditya, Wolfgang,
thank you both - both solutions look great and now I remember having seen the thread that Wolfgang linked to. Will try both of them!
Did you suceed? Where and how did you set the options? I cannot get these solutions to work with my xml input file. juh
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