<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><br>----- Original Message -----<br>From: "Uwe Lück" <uwe.lueck@web.de><br>To: "wawan" <wa2n@nrar.net>, texhax@tug.org<br>Sent: Monday, August 3, 2009 11:59:19 AM (GMT-0300) Auto-Detected<br>Subject: Re: [texhax] Font Mapping<br><br>At 03:03 23.07.09, wawan wrote:<br>>Can I map 2 chars in keyboard refer to 1 char in font table ?. Ex I write <br>>"HI: in .tex document then the result is char32 after compilation ..<br><br>It seems to me that you are speaking of ligatures. They must be declared in <br>the metafont source, I think. I do not know about virtual fonts which may <br>be an alternative.<br><br>Virtual font<span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>are indeed the answer. Combined with the extended ligaturing formulae in PL and TFM, they can do an astonishing job of creating composite characters, though I have never tried to emulate DEK's special trick of allowing the dissolution of ligatures for line breaking. This would be a good way of reintroducing the typesetting refinements from the U+Exxx pages of Unicode into text.<br><br>Ligaturing through the TFM mechanisms is how the post-positive accentuation of Ibycus is managed.<br><br>Pierre MacKay<br></div></body></html>