Re: OpenType ligatures

[Werner LEMBERG]

> Only common "f" ligatures work in gedit : ff, fi, fl, ffi, ffl, ffj,
> fj.  st, ſt, ct, ſh, ſi, ſl, ſſ and sp don't work.

Normally, such old-fashioned ligatures are disabled and have to be
explicitly switched on by selecting a proper OpenType feature.
Cf. the `liga' (standard ligatures), `clig' (contextual ligatures),
`dlig' (discretionary ligatures), `hlig' (historical ligatures), and
`rlig' (required ligatures) features.

I suspect that you have to activate `hlig'.  Unfortunately, this isn't
yet possible within LilyPond; see this thread

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2010-11/msg00126.html

and lilypond bug entry #1388.


    Werner