From time to time people in de.comp.text.tex ask for a solution to remove ligatures from german words automatically. As this requires quite some knowledge of

Feature Requests item #715, was opened at 2006-12-22 10:48 You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=496&aid=715&group_id=106 Category: None Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Uli Laube (ulilaube) Assigned to: Nobody (None) Summary: highlight ligatures Initial Comment: Hello! the morphology of the german language, packages like rmligs or ligatex use lists of words to remove unwanted ligatures. As this depends on the ligatures available in the font used, it is quite troublesome to the compile the lists. I'am proposing the following addtion to be incorporated into pdftex: highlighting of the ligatures. If enabled pdftex uses a bold version of the font when it inserts ligatures in normal text and vice versa. Like /em and /emph work for italic text. This would allow the user of pdftex to prepare a draft copy of the document were all ligatures are highlighted and can be easily spotted. The user can then insert "| manually to remove the unwanted ligatures. Kind Regards and Happy Holidays Uli Laube ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Frank Küster (frank) Date: 2006-12-22 11:08 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=3360 Since ligatures are inserted according to information in the fonts, I think this should be implemented as a combination of a special font (which uses noticeably different glyphs for ligatures), and a macro package that switches fonts. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=496&aid=715&group_id=106