[XeTeX] Ligatures question

[Nicolas Vaughan]

Hi,
Thanks to all. I didn't know the \ae-style macros!
Best wishes,
Nicolas


On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 10:27 AM, William Adams <will.adams at frycomm.com>wrote:

> On Jun 2, 2009, at 11:00 AM, Nicolas Vaughan wrote:
>
>  Is there a way I can get automatically the "ae", "Ae", "oe" and "Oe"
>> ligatures in XeLaTeX, without the need of looking for the glyphs in the
>> unicode table?
>>
>
>
> Properly, those aren't ligatures, but diphthongs and should be used when
> linguistically appropriate or when specifically trying to achieve an
> ``antique'' effect, but said effect should not rise to the level of
> affectation which will interfere w/ reading the text.
>
> William
>
> --
> William Adams
> senior graphic designer
> Fry Communications
> Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.
>
>
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