[Dev-luatex] letterspacing and (no) ligatures
Patrick Gundlach
patrick at gundla.ch
Thu Feb 10 13:53:25 CET 2011
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>> * in pdftex, \letterspacefont does not disable the ligatures, but this is what happens in luatex.
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> IMO that's a desireable behaviour, not a bug. See Bringhurst, Oliver Simon's _Introduction to Typography_ &c.
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> A control to turn it off or on (defaulting to disabling the ligatures) would be okay, but I've had to put a lot of effort into turning off ligatures when letterspacing and it's a pain.
In older german texts ligatures are not letter spaced. For example:
B i s m a r ck
(the ck ligature is not seperated)
Patrick
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