Re: Text formatting in >>2.4

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Erik Sandberg wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When we left the TeX back-end, some nice features were lost as well. An 
> example of this, is the typesetting of beautiful text that latex provides: 
> For example, "fi" is typeset in a slightly more typographically correct way 
> by latex than by lily >=2.6.

You are right. I had assumed that Pango deals with this, but that's not 
the case. There is a patch for Pango pending, which will add this 
functionality for OTF that have ligature tables.

See

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.gtk%2B.internationalization/1866


I the meantime, you could write a function that replaces fl and friends 
with appropriate UTF-8 sequences for the ligature glyphs. Unfortunately, 
 you will have to know which font contains which ligatures.



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