[luatex] \font primitive does not read otf file

[Khaled Hosny]

On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 09:47:05PM +0100, Petr Olsak wrote:
> 
> >>+tlig             ... ligatures --- to emdash type
> >
> >This is an entirely different thing unrelated to the quoted paragraph.
> 
> Where is documented this entirely different thing? This is basic
> feature in TeX

No it is a feature (or a hack) of Computer Modern fonts, TeX has no
special handling of any kind for `, ', ``, '', --, ---, ?` or !`.

> so I need to know about it. Where you (for example) have a source of
> that information?

In the very manual you were quoting, just flip the page.

Regards,
 Khaled