[XeTeX] Ligatures question

[Benct Philip Jonsson]

On 2009-06-03 wodzicki at math.berkeley.edu wrote:
> I would be happy using ligatures 'ct', 'st', long and 
> final 's', etc, but I wouldn't use 'æ' or 'œ'. 

That would seem odd to me.  I'd rather use the *whole*
16th-17th century typographic style (for texts of the 
period), of which æ and œ is very much part and parcel
or not use it at all.

/BP 8^)>
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