[XeTeX] Certain ligatures in Adobe Garamond Premier Pro

Rembrandt Wolpert wolpert at uark.edu
Sat May 2 05:18:17 CEST 2009


Thanks for the link -- I hadn't been watching... Now, Garamond Premier Pro's
ch and ck are real digraphs, not ligatures, as already pointed out. I attach
an example: top line without ch-digraph, bottom line with the digraph
applied. (And I used German for the example :-).

as ever,
Rembrandt


On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 21:26, Diederick C. Niehorster
<diederick at niehorster.eu> wrote:

> 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
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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