[XeTeX] Certain ligatures in Adobe Garamond Premier Pro

David Perry hospes.primus at verizon.net
Sat May 2 02:32:37 CEST 2009


One caution for those who want to try altering the features.  I recall 
reading that in German rules for syllabification (and therefore 
hyphenation and linebreaking) have some niceties that English speakers 
may not know about.  (Apologies: I can make my way through a scholarly 
article in German but cannot say that I truly know the language.)  If 
you move the ch and ck digraphs into the default features for Latin 
script, you may get some unexpected results.  The order in which 
features are processed in an OT font can be be important, and there can 
be interactions with software that does linebreaking (when, e.g., it no 
longer limits the digraphs to use in German and may apply them 
inappropriately).  I haven't tried this, just a heads-up.

David

Peter Baker wrote:
> Rembrandt Wolpert wrote:

> know: I don't think so. It seems to me a pretty simple fix to use 
> FontForge to edit the font (moving the t_h ligature and any others 
> you're sure you want to use all the time from dlig to liga). 



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