[XeTeX] Certain ligatures in Adobe Garamond Premier Pro

[Diederick C. Niehorster]

Hi Rembrant,

Slightly off-topic possibly, but just got to reading this:
http://www.typophile.com/node/43911. Might be interesting to you. I am
not sure what the digraphs look like in that font, but in general, are
you sure you want to cause the reader possible distraction due to
uncommon digraphs because they look better? Curious for your views on
this (p.s. do you have a short sample paragraph, I am also curious to
see what the digraphs look like in Garamond Premier Pro.

Best,
Dee

On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Rembrandt Wolpert <wolpert at uark.edu> wrote:
> thank you David for the caution note. I am a native German speaker, so I am
> aware of German hyphenation rules: they are indeed quite different from
> English.
>
> as ever,
> Rembrandt
>
>
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> On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 19:32, David Perry <hospes.primus at verizon.net> wrote:
>>
>> One caution for those who want to try altering the features.  I recall
>> reading that in German rules for syllabification (and therefore
>> hyphenation and linebreaking) have some niceties that English speakers
>> may not know about.  (Apologies: I can make my way through a scholarly
>> article in German but cannot say that I truly know the language.)  If
>> you move the ch and ck digraphs into the default features for Latin
>> script, you may get some unexpected results.  The order in which
>> features are processed in an OT font can be be important, and there can
>> be interactions with software that does linebreaking (when, e.g., it no
>> longer limits the digraphs to use in German and may apply them
>> inappropriately).  I haven't tried this, just a heads-up.
>>
>> David
>>
>> Peter Baker wrote:
>> > Rembrandt Wolpert wrote:
>>
>> > know: I don't think so. It seems to me a pretty simple fix to use
>> > FontForge to edit the font (moving the t_h ligature and any others
>> > you're sure you want to use all the time from dlig to liga).
>>
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