[texhax] Advanced Ligature Handling in .mf and .pl Files

Barbara Beeton bnb at ams.org
Wed Sep 16 15:39:07 CEST 2009


pierre's message enabled me to identify
the same article in tugboat:

   http://tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb10-3/tb25knut.pdf

the relevant sections seem to be

   4. smarter ligatures
   5. boundary ligatures
   6. more compact ligatures

some material in other sections may also
be useful in this regard.
 						-- bb

---------- Original message ----------
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:50:29 -0700
From: Pierre MacKay <pierre.mackay at comcast.net>
To: Barbara Beeton <bnb at ams.org>
Cc: Stan <texforeverything at att.net>, texhax at tug.org
Subject: Re: [texhax] Advanced Ligature Handling in .mf and .pl Files

The recent exchanges about this subject made it clear that the documentation
is rather hadr to come by, although Philip Taylor retrieved the reference, for
which I am very grateful, because I had lost my copy.

I have extracted the relevant section of TeXmag V4 N1 into a separate PDF file,
and I offer it here.  At very least, a printed copy is going to go into my
MetafontBook, and others will be scattered in appropriate TeXmf directories.  I
hope this documentation can also find a place where it will be visible in CTAN.

Pierre MacKay


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