vanadis@cs.dal.ca (Jose Castejon-Amenedo) (01/07/91)
Can anybody please explain (or give pointers to the appropriate references) how one gets TeX to recognize ligatures? The TeXBook mentions that this can be done, but I do not know how? Thanks in advance. JCA vanadis@cs.dal.ca
marcel@cs.caltech.edu (Marcel van der Goot) (01/08/91)
In <1991Jan6.173724.13631@cs.dal.ca> Jose Castejon-Amenedo (vanadis@cs.dal.ca) asks: > Can anybody please explain (or give pointers to the > appropriate references) how one gets TeX to recognize ligatures? The > TeXBook mentions that this can be done, but I do not know how? TeX always recognizes ligatures, no matter what. Unfortunately, this is largely outside the control of the user: Which ligatures are recognized depends on the font, and cannot be changed from TeX (don't ask me why not). The only (real) way to change the ligatures is by changing the font definition (or at least the tfm part of the the font definition). In appendix D Knuth demonstrates how to define some fake ligatures ('', ``, etc.) (the example about hanging punctuation). Marcel van der Goot marcel@vlsi.cs.caltech.edu