[NTG-context] broken: noligature AND hyphenation

Hans Hagen pragma at wxs.nl
Wed Nov 29 14:49:08 CET 2006


Steffen Wolfrum wrote:
> Hi,
>
> just by chance I experienced that there seems to be a problem with  
> ligatures and hyphenation in ConTeXt.
>
> This is the example:
>
> \usetypescript[postscript][\defaultencoding]
> \setupencoding[default=texnansi]
> \mainlanguage[de]
> \enableregime[mac]
> \setupbodyfont[postscript,10pt]
>
> \starttext
>
> Auflagen % the fl-ligature is wrong here
>
> Auf\-lagen % this is the right fl
>
> Auf\/lagen %this is the right fl
>
> 123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012 
> 34567890 Auflagen % right hyphenation, but wrong ligature
>
> 123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012 
> 34567890 Auf\-lagen % but this kills the other hyphenation Aufla-gen
>
> 123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012 
> 34567890 Auf\/lagen %  but this kills the other hyphenation Aufla-gen
>
> 123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012 
> 34567890 Auf"-lagen % this is used in (La)TeX, but doesn'T work in  
> ConTeXt?!
>
> % the next wrong causes an error (but would be perfect:
> 123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012 
> 34567890 Auf"|lagen % this is used in (La)TeX, but doesn'T work in  
> ConTeXt?!
>
> \stoptext
>
>
>
> What is needed is to ...
> 1) avoid the fl-ligature
> 2) preserve all the default hyphenation points
>
> In TeX (or only LaTeX?) Auf"-lagen or Auf"|lagen would do this. But  
> what is the equivalent in ConTeXt?
>
>   
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