[XeTeX] How to use ligatures for TTF fonts?

[Mi CHEN]

Hi, JK

Thanks for your quick reply! Actually I'm using Fedora Core 10 and
TeXlive2008, and the font of Times New Roman comes from Windows XP system. I
will try the OTF version which shipped with Windows Vista later.

On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 2:32 AM, Jonathan Kew <jonathan at jfkew.plus.com>wrote:

> On 30 Jan 2009, at 18:20, Mi CHEN wrote:
>
> > Hi, all
> >
> > I found that TTF fonts such as Times New Roman which comes with
> > Windows indeed has glyphs for ligatures of "fi" and "fl". But the
> > two glyphs cannot be accessed automatically in XeTeX with fontspec
> > package, I mean "f" and "i" are displayed as independent glyphs
> > instead of  special glyph "fi". Actually I could access the two
> > glyphs by explicitly calling them by \namedglyph{fi} and
> > \namedglyph{fl}, but is there an automatically method to handle
> > this? I tried to load Times New Roman by \fontspec[Ligatures=Common]
> > {Times New Roman} but failed:(
>
> What OS version are you using, and what version of Times New Roman is
> this? Any fairly recent version Windows version of TNR should include
> the OpenType tables that support these ligatures, but if you're using
> an old font then perhaps that wasn't supported.
>
> JK
>
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Regards,
Mi
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