[XeTeX] Certain ligatures in Adobe Garamond Premier Pro

Rembrandt Wolpert wolpert at uark.edu
Sat May 2 03:42:09 CEST 2009


thank you David for the caution note. I am a native German speaker, so I am
aware of German hyphenation rules: they are indeed quite different from
English.

as ever,
Rembrandt



On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 19:32, David Perry <hospes.primus at verizon.net> wrote:

> 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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