[XeTeX] Zero Width Non Joiner, or how not to make a ligature

[John Was]

Yes of course - all this German has obviously Fraktured my memory banks.

Best

John

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "François Charette" <firmicus at ankabut.net>
To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms" <xetex at tug.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 2:58 PM
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ligature


> John Was a écrit :
>> <...>
>> At any rate, the zero width non joiner seems too much of an exotic 
>> element
>> at present to rely on it.
>>
> This may hold for fonts covering the Latin script, but for Arabic,
> Persian etc. the two "pseudo-glyphs" ZWJ and ZWNJ are essential and have
> been standard in Arabic fonts for many years now. My arabxetex package
> relies on them in several instances, and they work with all Arabic fonts
> I have tested until now.
>
> F
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