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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">Hello</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">Forgive the puzzlement of a new recruit to
FontForge (which is installed via Cygwin on a Windows XP machine). And
apologies if this isn't the right forum - though frequent discussion of
font-related issues here gives me hope.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">I edited a font which had just the fi and fl
ligatures (in their true Unicode positions at FB01 and FB02) and I managed
to create tolerable versions of the other three standard ligatures (ff,
ffi, ffl). Using FontForge I have added these in the slots FB00, FB03, and
FB04. But "mapping=tex-text" in the font call (in plain XeTeX) doesn't
access any of them, neither the two that were there already nor the three
that I created; however, the standard ` ' `` and '' for opening and closing
quotations do work so the mapping call is basically functioning as normal.
The glyphs are accessible to TeX if I give them manually as \char"FB00 etc. but
I obviously would like to have them delivered automatically as
usual.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">I have tinkered with various FontForge menus
and had hoped that adding 'liga' to the GSUB window would be
sufficient, but there is clearly something I am not doing right. Can
anyone advise?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">Many thanks</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">John</FONT></DIV>
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