Re: kerning/ligatures in opentype fonts

[Alexander Kobel]

On 01/16/2014 03:28 PM, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > > [...] As mentioned by Urs, there is even a (semi)automatic solution
> > > called `selnolig' which uses a dictionary of German words to find
> > > and handle such non-ligatures properly (this is, you don't have to
> > > insert "| any more).
> >
> > Amazing.  IIUC, that requires the /text rendering engine/ to bring
> > it's own dictionary?
>
> Well, the TeX engine comes with hyphenation patterns, so why not
> having something special for `fi' and `fl' handling, which you can
> only resolve with dictionaries?  [...]

PEBKAC on my side.  I misread [selnolig] for an optional feature of the 
rendering engine instead of a LaTeX package.  Now it suddenly makes sense...


Thanks,
Alexander