[XeTeX] No ligatures, dashes and typographical quotes after changing font

Alexander Schultheiß aschulth at googlemail.com
Thu Sep 9 17:21:58 CEST 2010


Hello Fr. Michael,

On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Fr. Michael Gilmary
<FrMichaelGilmary at maronitemonks.org> wrote:

> But can't you also add ":+liga" to the \font command? There are other
> OpenType options, I think, via the same addition (e.g., +smcp, etc.)

I think the option"+liga" is set by XeTeX per default. XeTeX will not
search for ligatures in the font itself, I think, but rather rely on
the font internal GSUB tables. If there is no ligature lookup defined
then the font has no ligatures as far as XeTeX is concerned. At least,
it was not before I added such a table that the ligatures appeared.

> You're welcome. And I'll say "lucky" too, since I don't really use XeTeX!

What are you using then? You seem very aware of plain TeX.

Alex


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