[XeTeX] Certain ligatures in Adobe Garamond Premier Pro

[William Adams]

On May 1, 2009, at 12:11 PM, Rembrandt Wolpert wrote:

> deals nicely with most of these -- even those which seem to have only
> GIDs (ffl, for example). However, there are some particularly nice
> glyphs which I wondered how to deal with more elegantly. They come up
> perfectly fine with:
>
> \newcommand{\ch}{\XeTeXglyph260} % "ligature" ch
> \newcommand{\ck}{\XeTeXglyph261} % "ligature" ck
> \newcommand{\ich}{\XeTeXglyph264} % "ligature" italic ch
> \newcommand{\ick}{\XeTeXglyph265} % "ligature" italic ck

Those aren't ligatures in the decorative sense, but rather digraphs  
which are used in German to represent specific sounds --- do they have  
Unicode codepoints? If so, keyboard them thusly.


> \newcommand{\ith}{\XeTeXglyph301} % ligature italic th

This _is_ a ligature and ``just works'' w/ the setmainfont you  
described.

William

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