[XeTeX] Ligatures

Arthur Reutenauer arthur.reutenauer at normalesup.org
Wed Jun 19 14:58:28 CEST 2013


> Type1 smallcaps fonts used to do that, not sure why, but probably
> because some applications were doing ligature replacement incrementally
> and I think it propagated to some (early?) Adobe OpenType fonts. Also,
> some fonts seem to use such smallcap ligatures to fix bad interaction
> between ‘liga’ and ‘smcp’, but that is the wrong way to fix it.

  Interesting.  In any case, that should be considered a bug in the font
as you said.

	Arthur


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