[XeTeX] How to use ligatures for TTF fonts?

[Adam Twardoch]

Adam Twardoch wrote:
> The Microsoft core fonts (Arial, Times New Roman, Courier New, Tahoma
> etc.) only contain OpenType Layout code for complex scripts. 

A small correction: the core fonts that ship with Windows Vista do
contain OpenType Layout code for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic, but only for
the purely linguistic features ("ccmp", "mark" and "mkmk", and of
course, "kern"). The "liga" feature is only implemented for the Arabic
script -- for the reasons I explained before.

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