[XeTeX] Accessing ligatures from FontForge

[John Was]

Dear David

Yes - I'd worked that bit out.  (But curiously, in Monotype Baskerville Open 
Type, which I was looking at for comparison, the ligatures work perfectly 
but are not identified by FontForge as ligatures in the look-up table. 
However, I have only viewed Baskerville in FontForge and haven't done 
anything with it - indeed, I presume I'm not supposed to.)

Best

John

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David J. Perry" <hospes.primus at verizon.net>
To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms" <xetex at tug.org>
Sent: 23 February 2011 15:33
Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Accessing ligatures from FontForge


> John,
>
> When you created the f_f_l and so forth in FontForge, did mark them as 
> ligatures and indicate the correct number of components?  (Characters in 
> OT are classified as simple, ligatures, marks, components and something 
> else I forget at the moment; ligatures also receive a value of 2, 3, etc. 
> depending on the number of pieces that make them up.)  FontForge should 
> provide a way to categorize the characters correctly; if you don't, it 
> probably assumes 'simple' and things won't work right.
>
> David
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "John Was" <john.was at ntlworld.com>
> To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms" <xetex at tug.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 7:48 AM
> Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Accessing ligatures from FontForge
>
>
>> Dear David
>>
>> Many thanks.  That looks exactly how I would expect it to be - though I 
>> am obviously not quite umderstanding what fontforge want me to do to get 
>> liga to work.  I will keep at it and no doubt the penny will drop 
>> eventually.
>>
>> Best wishes
>>
>>
>> John
>
>
>
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